 | Sandra M. Gustafson - 2000 - 320 pages
...citizens participate directly in governance, and a republic based on representation, whose effect is "to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...wisdom may best discern the true interest of their 19. Ames's speech is reprinted in Bailyn, ed., Debate on the Constitution, part i, 891-895, esp. 892.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 2000 - 1018 pages
...represents the interests of the nation. Refinement of the desires of the public was to be achieved by "passing them through the medium of a chosen body...best discern the true interest of their country." In retrospect, Madison and the other framers of the US Constitution were quite right about the advantages... | |
 | Edward Bryan Portis, Adolf G. Gundersen, Ruth Lessl Shively - 2000 - 248 pages
...all" (1982, 110). 4. In the Federalist 10, Madison notes that the aim of representative government is to "refine and enlarge the public views by passing...through the medium of a chosen body of citizens." The result, he argued, would be "more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people... | |
 | Arnold J. Heidenheimer, Michael Johnston - 2011 - 850 pages
...deliberative theory. He argued that such a republic was more likely than other systems of government to refine and enlarge the public views by passing...country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be less likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.58 Madison was, of course, a subtle... | |
 | Kuo-Tsai Liou - 2001 - 818 pages
...government because representation makes it possible to extend government over a large area and serves to "refine and enlarge the public views. by passing...may best discern the true interest of their country" tCooke. l96l: 62-63l. The Federalists believed that ordinary people were neither qualified for nor... | |
 | Mark Maslan - 2001 - 250 pages
...transformative force. Madison proposed a new federal representative body in order "to refine and enlarge public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens." For Whitman this formula becomes one for passing what he sees as a people at war with itself through... | |
 | Dennis F. Thompson - 2002 - 275 pages
...filter is also quite consistent with Madison's theory: the effect of representation in a republic is "to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...may best discern the true interest of their country" ( The Federalist No. 10, 134). 79. For a philosophical analysis of the value of limiting information,... | |
 | Gregory Schrempp, William Hansen - 2002 - 278 pages
...multitude" by "the delegation of the government ... to a small number of citizens elected by the rest" would "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them...best discern the true interest of their country." The "public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people," Madison surmised, would prove... | |
 | Mark Hulliung - 2002 - 278 pages
...Publius (Madison) expressed his ardent hope that the new regime would be governed by rulers who would "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them...best discern the true interest of their country." Publius (Hamilton) believed that "the idea of an actual representation of all classes of the people... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1885 - 412 pages
...Congressional Government, Wilson's views on deliberation differ from those of Madison. Madison sought "to refine and enlarge the public views by passing...wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country."86 Madison was concerned about the proper "institutional environment" for promoting deliberation.... | |
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The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and... 
