 | 1933 - 510 pages
...Madison James Madison in a letter to a friend wrote: " Popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." Jackson Andrew Jackson, who was liberal in his attitude towards grants of public lands, * Library Bookplate... | |
 | Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna S. Lincoln - 2003 - 316 pages
...Madison wrote in I822 is as true today as ever: A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves... | |
 | Mathew T. Cogwell - 2003 - 160 pages
...must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.12 The sentiments expressed by Madison in 1822 are prescient today. The populace desires knowledge... | |
 | Matthew J. Gibney - 2003 - 290 pages
...arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of" acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both.'4 Jeremy Bentham based his constitutional system on the motive of "personal interest corrected... | |
 | Jacques Vallee - 2003 - 230 pages
...procedure. Two hundred years ago, James Madison said, "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy or perhaps both." Madison could hardly have anticipated the web, the Grid, and the Mesh. Yet... | |
 | Michael J. Hogan, Thomas G. Paterson - 2004 - 386 pages
...advisers.91 Critics recalled James Madison's warning that "a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both." The new order shifted the burden of proof. Under the PRA, the former President had to prove why a document... | |
 | Daniel J Solove - 2004 - 283 pages
...our legal system."4 As James Madison observed: "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm... | |
 | Sally Mahe, Kathy Covert - 2004 - 228 pages
...of the same kind. THOMAS PAINE, STATESMAN /jf ' I/ popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy,- or perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration - 2004 - 112 pages
...freedom: an enlightened public. As tames Madison said: A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it. is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm... | |
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with... 
