 | Woodstock Theological Center - 2002 - 112 pages
...... By a faction, I undersrand a number of citizens, wherher amounting to a majotity or a minotity of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the tights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.... | |
 | Philip A. Kuhn - 2003 - 180 pages
...promote its aims in def1ance of the public and of legitimate minority interests. Madison elaborated: "By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,... | |
 | John Curtis Samples - 2002 - 260 pages
...Federalist No. 10, is oft quoted but rarely carefully considered. Examine closely his definition of faction: "By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse or passion, or of interest,... | |
 | Gary Hart - 2002 - 305 pages
...American Freedom (New York, 1998), 2223. 38. Rossiter, The Federalist Papers, no. 10 (Madison), 45. 39- "By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,... | |
 | Darin Wipperman - 2003 - 291 pages
...and my "extremism" are not synonymous, however, as will be discussed. Madison defined "faction" as, a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority...by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.... | |
 | Winfried Fluck - 2003 - 368 pages
...based on the consent of the governed. Madison articulated a common concern when he recognized that "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united by some common impulse of passion, or of interest" might overrun "the rights of other citizens," or... | |
 | Terry L. Anderson, Fred S. McChesney - 2003 - 412 pages
...system. James Madison defined faction to cover "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion or interest, adverse to the rights of the citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the... | |
 | Paul M. Kellstedt - 2003 - 180 pages
...to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. ... By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,... | |
 | Samuel Kernell - 2003 - 400 pages
...the unsteadiness and injustice, with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 2003 - 692 pages
...the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administration. By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest,... | |
| |
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and... 
