 | William Russell White - 1951 - 1006 pages
...republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy." — Hamilton. "The two great points of difference between a democracy...rest : secondly, the greater number of citizens and extent of territory that may be brought within the compass of a republic than of a democratic government."... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1965 - 1366 pages
...cure for which we • seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, 4 we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it >st derive from the Union. "The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are:... | |
 | Daniel Judah Elazar - 1979 - 150 pages
...republic. In The Federalist, one of the great points of difference between a democracy and a republic is "the delegation of the government, in the latter,...to a small number of citizens elected by the rest." The effect of this difference is that "under such a regulation it may well happen that the public voice,... | |
 | George Wescott Carey - 1994 - 220 pages
...end, he compares a republic to a pure democracy to "examine the points" of difference in order to show "the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union" (81). What becomes clear as he proceeds is that what he really wants to show are the advantages of... | |
 | Patrick Murray - 1997 - 504 pages
...prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature...elected by the rest: secondly, the greater number ot citizens and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may he extended. The effect of the... | |
 | Peter DeLeon - 1997 - 176 pages
...cure for which we are seeking." Emphasizing the distinction in terms of representation, he continued: The two great points of difference between a democracy...rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and great sphere of country over which the latter may be extended. (10, p. 82) In so doing, he consciously... | |
 | Philip Resnick - 1997 - 182 pages
...a Constitution would ... not outlast the day it was born in. (Locke, Treatise on Government: 376-7) The two great points of difference between a democracy...the delegation of the government in the latter to a smaller number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and the greater... | |
 | Irving M. Zeitlin - 1997 - 228 pages
...The two basic differences between a democracy and a republic, Madison explains, are the delegation of government in the latter to a small number of citizens elected by the rest and the larger population and geographic area over which the government may be extended. Furthermore,... | |
 | Robert Kocis - 1998 - 272 pages
...representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. . . . The two great points of difference between a democracy...rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and the greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended."21 The Madisonian solution22... | |
 | Alan R. Hirsch, Akhil Reed Amar - 1999 - 288 pages
...varies from pure democracy. [A] great point[] of difference between a democracy and a republic [is] the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest. Clearly, in this brief discussion, Madison recognizes advantages of representative democracy over direct... | |
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A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. 
