 | Elliott Abrams - 2002 - 156 pages
...refining the popular appointments by successive filtrations."4 In Federalist 10 he argued that the effect of representation was "to refine and enlarge the public...them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens. . . . Under such a regulation it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives... | |
 | Christian Joerges, Renaud Dehousse - 2002 - 394 pages
...'the effect of the . . . difference [between a direct democracy and a representative republic] is ... to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom might best discern the true interests of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice, will... | |
 | John Curtis Samples - 2002 - 260 pages
...extended."16 The two solutions are, thus, first, to substitute representation for direct democracy, in order to "refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...through the medium of a chosen body of citizens," and second, to increase the transaction costs necessary to assemble a majority faction animated by... | |
 | Elaine C. Kamarck, Joseph S. Nye - 2004 - 210 pages
...good rechnology I recommend, there will be a need "to refine and enlatge the public views by pasting them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true inrerest of the country." Although your paper neglects this need as a force in cyberdemocracy's matketplace... | |
 | Samuel Kernell - 2003 - 400 pages
...a properly designed "scheme of representation" to provide an important auxiliary check on factions: "to refine and enlarge the public views by passing...discern the true interest of their country . . . and will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations" (Federalist 10, MP 10,268).... | |
 | Elmer Eric Schattschneider - 284 pages
...figure of a filter. He said that the function of a republic with representative institutions, etc., was "to refine and enlarge the public views by passing...best discern the true interest of their country." — Federalist, Number io. crnment. In an autocracy parties are controlled (suppressed) at the source;... | |
 | Claes G. Ryn - 2003 - 246 pages
...opinion is sifted through representative institutions. In the words of Federalist No. 10, it is desirable "to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...best discern the true interest of their country."' The Framers also assumed that voting would be restricted to individuals who, as property owners, were... | |
 | Robert William Bennett - 2003 - 250 pages
...capable of such public spirited deliberation. James Madison held that a representative legislature might "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them...best discern the true interest of their country." But this possibility suggests weak ties between legislators and constituents, whereas the move toward... | |
 | Steven E. Schier - 2003 - 186 pages
...but a vital means for improving the quality of governmental decision making by allowing officeholders to "refine and enlarge the public views, by passing...citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest in their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to... | |
 | Janet Ajzenstat - 2003 - 518 pages
...articulated this preference for talent in government by calling for a republican system that would "refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens. " These citizens were to be "representatives whose enlightened views and virtuous sentiments render... | |
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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... 
