 | Rufino Luna - 1926 - 368 페이지
...citizens gather." President Madison said that a "popular government without popular information or a means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy." Municipal reporting aims to acquaint the people with facts about the municipality. It informs them... | |
 | Rufino Luna - 1926 - 364 페이지
...citizens gather." President Madison said that a "popular government without popular information or a means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy." Municipal reporting aims to acquaint the people with facts about the municipality. It informs them... | |
 | Lent Dayton Upson - 1926 - 616 페이지
...of education is necessary if it is true, as James Madison observed more than a century ago, that ' ' Popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is the prologue to a farce or a tragedy." 1 It is not sufficient that education prepare the individual... | |
 | 1928 - 298 페이지
...you going to do about it?' I asked her. " 'Oh, I've redoubled,' she replied with a careless laugh." "A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but H prologue to a farce or a tragedy." A French economist ouce said "the best tax is the one that gets... | |
 | Martin Yant - 2003 - 260 페이지
...far more often." The result has been just what James Madison, author of the First Amendment warned: "A popular government without popular information,...prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both." It increasingly seems that we have both. As mystery writer KC Constantine noted in the foreword to... | |
 | Mathew T. Cogwell - 2003 - 160 페이지
...And a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or...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 페이지
...people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or...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 페이지
...science, but it is even less compatible with democratic procedure. Two hundred years ago, James Madison said, "A popular government without popular information,...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration - 2004 - 112 페이지
...of the keystones of our 200-year old experiment in freedom: an enlightened public. As tames Madison said: A popular Government without popular information,...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... 
