 | Frederick G. Whelan - 2004 - 440 sivua
...whether the theory is sufficiently realistic to be workable. It remains to be seen, Hamilton says, "whether societies of men are really capable or not...destined to depend for their political constitutions [as Hume had it] on accident and force" (FP #1, 33)."5 Because of the conflicts and pitfalls of political... | |
 | Paul Magnette - 2005 - 220 sivua
...to his defence of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton4 (1757-1804) says that it is about deciding 'the important question, whether societies of men...their political constitutions, on accident and force' (Federalist Papers I). This constituent moment crystallises the fears and aspirations of the American... | |
 | Brian C. Anderson - 2005 - 216 sivua
...to the people of this country, by their conduct and example," wrote Alexander Hamilton, "to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force." 2 Without reflection—reason—politics degenerates into tyranny. The founders understood this. In... | |
 | Daniel J. Hulsebosch - 2006 - 496 sivua
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions, on accident and force." 20 This was the empire of conscious government, similar to Thomas Jefferson's "empire of liberty" and... | |
 | Gary Rosen - 2005 - 268 sivua
...seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force." The human right to be free, in other words, does not guarantee the human capacity to be free. That... | |
 | Samuel Avery - 2005 - 260 sivua
...limited sway over the whole of human nature. America was in a unique position, he stated, to decide the Important question, whether societies of men are...their political constitutions on accident and force... But this Is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected. [Hamilton, No.l] Hamilton... | |
 | Jeremy A. Rabkin - 2005 - 366 sivua
...moderation and sobriety. It is at least a plausible claim. The opening passage of The Federalist put it as a question: "whether societies of men are really capable...their political constitutions on accident and force"? By linking "choice" with "reflection," this version of the question acknowledges that choice has inherent... | |
 | Paul W. Kahn - 2009 - 333 sivua
...Federalist No. 1 (A. Hamilton) (C. Rossiter, ed., 1961) (the United States is an experiment to decide "whether societies of men are really capable or not...political constitutions on accident and force."); P. Kahn, "Reason and Will in the Origins of American Constitutionalism," 98 Yale LJ, 449, 455 (1989).... | |
 | Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe - 2005 - 373 sivua
...constituted, may last one, two, or three days; a far greater difficulty is the preservation of it. 183 ...whether societies of men are really capable or...their political constitutions on accident and force. 184 But a constitution is not a model for a new society. It is an agreement among the people of the... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2005 - 318 sivua
...former can choose their organization; the latter cannot. When Alexander Hamilton asked in Federalist \ "whether societies of men are really capable or not,...their political constitutions, on accident and force," his question was mostly rhetorical: The Americans were demonstrating to the world that government "from... | |
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It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from... 
