 In a republican government the majority, if united, have always an opportunity. The only remedy is to enlarge the sphere, and thereby divide the community into so great a number of interests and parties that a majority will not be likely to have a common...  Outlook and Independent - Page 1821903Full view - About this book
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 708 pages
...united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government, the majority, if united,...so great a number of interests and parties, that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the same moment, to have a common interest separate... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 700 pages
...united -by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government, the majority, if united,...so great a number of interests and parties, that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the same moment, to have a common interest separate... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - United States - 1840 - 692 pages
...united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government, the majority, if united,...so great a number of interests and parties, that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the same moment, to have a common interest separate... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 578 pages
...united by a common sentiment and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government, the majority, if united, have always an opportunity." — p. 806. Mr. Elbridge Gerry went much further. He says; "The evils we experience flow from the excess... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1845 - 672 pages
...united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government, the majority, if united,...so great a number of interests and parties, that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the game moment, to have a common interest separate... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1845 - 688 pages
...united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government, the majority, if united,...so great a number of interests and parties, that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the same moment, to have a common interest separate... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 676 pages
...united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government, the majority, if united,...so great a number of interests and parties, that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the same moment, to have a common interest separate... | |
 | Simon Sterne - Proportional representation - 1871 - 254 pages
..." the enlarging of the sphere (by the formation of a House of Representatives),and thereby dividing the community into so great a number of interests and parties that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely at the same moment to have a common interest separate... | |
 | Simon Sterne - Proportional representation - 1871 - 250 pages
..." the enlarging of the sphere (by the formation of a House of Kepresentatives),and thereby dividing the community into so great a number of interests and parties that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely at the same moment to have a common interest separate... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1881 - 704 pages
...united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. In a republican government, the majority, if united,...so great a number of interests and parties, that, fn the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the same moment, to have a common interest separate... | |
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