...figure of a filter. He said that the function of a republic with representative institutions, etc., was "to refine and enlarge the public views by passing...best discern the true interest of their country." — Federalist, Number io. crnment. In an autocracy parties are controlled (suppressed) at the source;...

...capable of such public spirited deliberation. James Madison held that a representative legislature might "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them...best discern the true interest of their country." But this possibility suggests weak ties between legislators and constituents, whereas the move toward...

...but a vital means for improving the quality of governmental decision making by allowing officeholders to "refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest in their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to...

...articulated this preference for talent in government by calling for a republican system that would "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens. " These citizens were to be "representatives whose enlightened views and virtuous sentiments render...

...passions; for, as Madison (sounding remarkably like Burke) had put it, the representative system could 'refine and enlarge the public views by passing them...through the medium of a chosen body of citizens'." Popular control and wise government, selfgovernment and a national imperium, accountability and centripetal...

...that it will be possible 'to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the med1um of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best...sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations'; The Federalist, N0. 10, in James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, ed....

...terms of deliberativeness: the operation and power entrusted to government must be diffused or filtered "to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country."20 For Calhoun, this purpose was best fulfilled by a "simple government, instituted by the...

...certain sensitivity or anticipation of deliberative democracy in republicanism: James Madison wanted "to refine and enlarge the public views by passing...them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens" (126). And Alexander Hamilton saw the representative body as an "opportunity for cool and sedate reflection"...

...citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended. The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge...considerations. Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public...

...citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended. The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand to refine and enlarge...considerations. Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public...