 Hamilton : All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born ; the other, the mass of the people. . . . The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give, therefore, to the...  Outlook and Independent - 181 페이지1903전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | Martin S. Sheffer - 2000 - 226 페이지
...12. This notion comes directly from Alexander Hamilton on the floor of the Constitutional Convention: "All communities divide themselves into the few and...and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been... | |
 | Gary Hart - 2002 - 305 페이지
...depravity."5 Then, having heard the voice of the people and deeming it depraved, Hamilton concluded: "The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class [the wealthy] a distinct, permanent share in the government." 6 Since Hamilton believed... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 2002 - 438 페이지
...to endow the propertied classes with this permanent authority to check the imprudence of democracy: All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people. . . The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom... | |
 | Gregory Schrempp, William Hansen - 2002 - 278 페이지
...voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right" (Farrand 1966,1:299). Why? Because, as James Madison declared in Federalist 10, they lacked "a republican... | |
 | Howard Zinn - 2003 - 372 페이지
...Hamilton, George Washington's closest adviser and the first secretary of the treasury. Hamilton wrote, “All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people... . Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent... | |
 | Stanislaw Ossowski - 1998 - 222 페이지
...support an aristocratic senate composed of representatives of the plutocracy elected for a life term. ‘All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are rich and well-born and the other the mass of the people who seldom judge or determine right.” But... | |
 | Robert M. Eisinger - 2003 - 232 페이지
...voice of God. And however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right." 3 James Bryce cited an unnamed writer as describing the founders' conception of public opinion as "aggressive,... | |
 | Craig R. Smith - 2005 - 310 페이지
...government has for its object public strength and individual security." He went even further on June 26: All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people. .. . The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom... | |
 | A. Kristen Foster - 2004 - 226 페이지
...unsteadiness of the people. “All communities divide themselves into the few and the many,” he wrote. “The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been... | |
 | T. Cushing Daniel - 2004 - 356 페이지
...produced, and such has been its progress in the minds of many that this truth gradually gains ground. All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are rich and well born; the other, the mass of the pcople." He then states that the rich and well-born... | |
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