 | William M. Wiecek - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...time, Madison had come to fear the power of legislative majorities. As he wrote to Thomas Jefferson, "[W]herever 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... | |
 | Helmut Richard Niebuhr - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 286
...limit abuses of power wherever they may occur. "Wherever the real power in government lies," he wrote, "there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments...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... | |
 | Akhil Reed Amar - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...previously expressed the same view in a letter to Jefferson on the subject of a possible bill of rights: "In our Governments the real power lies in the majority...the Community, and the invasion of private rights is cbeiflv [sic] to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...the bill of rights violated in every instance where it has been opposed to a popular current. . . . 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... | |
 | Roberto Gargarella - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...fears of majority rule for his constitutional proposals. In a letter to Jefferson, he affirmed that "wherever the real power in a Government lies, there...invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Governments contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the... | |
 | William M. Wiecek - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...time, Madison had come to fear the power of legislative majorities. As he wrote to Thomas Jefferson, "[W]herever the real power in a Government lies, there...the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefiy to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but... | |
 | Cass R. Sunstein - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...(Const. Ct.). 14. 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... | |
 | Ronald A. Cass - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...CONSTITUTION AND THE SUPREME COURT: A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY 121, 122 (Louis H. Pollack ed., World Pub. Co. 1966) ("Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Government, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights... | |
 | Michael Meyerson - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...permits that majority to inflict harm on others as well. As James Madison wrote 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... | |
 | Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 852
...precisely because this is a republican (that is, majority rule) system. As Madison once wrote to 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... | |
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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... 
