 | Fisher Ames - 1809 - 576 páginas
...it both odious and terrible ; yet this and a thousand times more than this was practised in France, and will be repeated, as often as it shall please...What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.... | |
 | Fisher Ames - 1854 - 464 páginas
...it both odious and terrible ; yet this and a thousand times more than this was practised in France, and will be repeated as often as it shall please God...most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of... | |
 | Fisher Ames - 1854 - 464 páginas
...it both odious and terrible ; yet this and a thousand times more than this was practised in France, and will be repeated as often as it shall please God...most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of... | |
 | Rebecca Stefoff - 2005 - 146 páginas
...Federalist from Boston, expressed this point of view in an essay written in 1805. THE PEOPLE, AS A WHOLE, cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an...What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.... | |
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France, and will be repeated, as often as it shall please God in his wrath to deliver a people to the dominion of their licentious passions. THE people, as a body, cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their... 