But the most common and durable source of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society. The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papersherausgegeben von - 392 SeitenKeine Leseprobe verfügbar - Über dieses Buch
| Stephen F. Knack - 2003 - 324 Seiten
...voters to transfer income and wealth from the richer halt In "Federalist #10," Madison argued that "the most common and durable source of factions has...property have ever formed distinct interests in society." In the absence of sufficient checks and balances on popular majorities, "democracies . . . have ever... | |
| Samuel Kernell - 2003 - 400 Seiten
...typical pieces of Madisonian economics and game theory: [T]he most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property....property have ever formed distinct interests in society. (Federalist Number 10) In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is... | |
| Stanislaw Ossowski - 1998 - 222 Seiten
...considerations. Indeed, Madison's observations on this point lack only the term 'super-structure'. 'But the most common and durable source of factions...unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and 1 Ihid., p. 57. 1 Born 1751, died 1836. those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests... | |
| Sotirios A. Barber - 2009 - 192 Seiten
...constitute some evidence for the liberal theory of human nature implicit in Publius's famous statement that "the most common and durable source of factions, has...the various and unequal distribution of property," not "zeal for different opinions concerning religion . . . [and] Government" (10:58-59). The remaining... | |
| Sunil Ahuja, Robert E. Dewhirst - 2003 - 286 Seiten
...observations remained relevant at both the beginning and the end of the twentieth century. He argued, "[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distributions of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct... | |
| Margaret Oppenheimer, Nicholas Mercuro - 2005 - 468 Seiten
...the respective proprietors ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.34 But the most common and durable source of factions...property have ever formed distinct interests in society. . . . The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern... | |
| Seymour Martin Lipset, Jason M. Lakin - 2004 - 494 Seiten
...recognized long ago by James Madison, who wrote in The Federalist no. 10 under the name Publius that "the most common and durable source of factions has...without property have ever formed distinct interests in society."45 Following this reasoning, Lipset referred to elections as the "democratic class struggle."46... | |
| Richard C. Box - 2005 - 178 Seiten
...old story, traceable at least to ancient Athens (Phillips, 1993). In 1787, James Madison wrote that "the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property" (in Rossiter, 1961, p. 79). The Levellers of the English revolution in the middle of the seventeenth... | |
| Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2004 - 468 Seiten
...1961), 464. 7 Federalist No. 10 (J. Madison), in Rossiter, ed., The Federalist Papers, 79 (noting that "the most common and durable source of factions has...the various and unequal distribution of property"). Aristotle similarly criticized democracy as rule by "men of low birth and no property," which is true... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 2004 - 214 Seiten
...of factions, has been the various and unequal distribution of property." Seen from this perspective, "those who hold, and those who are without property, have ever formed distinct interests in society," and it was Madison's felt responsibility to craft a political system that would prevent the property-less... | |
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