 | John Meany, Kate Shuster - 2003 - 338 páginas
...measures, and other incursions into what is left of the Bill of Rights. As James Madison prophesied: "Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our democracy, the real power lies in the majority of the Community." After the terrorist attacks on September... | |
 | 2002 - 484 páginas
...than it was then proposed, notwithstanding the additional obstacle which the law has since created. Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression.* Madison's view was that the strongest guaranty of religious freedom was to be found in a "multiplicity... | |
 | Robert E. Shalhope - 2004 - 220 páginas
...individual state assemblies. Again James Madison offered the most cogent insights into the matter: "Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there...invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government... | |
 | Phillip E. Hammond, David W. Machacek, Eric Michael Mazur - 2004 - 204 páginas
...then proposed, notwithstanding the additional obstacle which the law has since created.8 Whereever the real power in a Government lies, there is the...invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government... | |
 | Carl J. Richard - 2004 - 396 páginas
...bodies" that were to form the US Congress. Madison warned Thomas Jefferson: "Wherever the real power in Government lies, there is the danger of oppression....invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government... | |
 | Beau Breslin - 2004 - 298 páginas
...And although fixating on the principle of individual rights, Madison's sentiment is also informative: "In our Governments the real power lies in the majority...invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, hut from acts in which Government... | |
 | David L. Faigman - 2004 - 440 páginas
...contrary view, believing the people themselves to be the source of tyranny. He wrote to Jefferson that "the real power lies in the majority of the Community,...invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government... | |
 | Cass R. Sunstein - 2005 - 316 páginas
...Constitution's framers. James Madison referred to both but spoke of the former as the more serious danger: "[I]n our Governments the real power lies in the majority...invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government... | |
 | John J. Patrick - 2006 - 113 páginas
...Madison expressed his fear of majority tyranny in an October 17, 1788, letter to Thomas Jefferson: Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there...invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government... | |
 | John N. Drobak - 2006 - 257 páginas
...greatest threat to justice in a republican system comes from the most democratic parts of the government: Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there...invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government... | |
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Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary... 
