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" In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. "
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The American Review of History and Politics, and General ..., Volume 2

1811 - 584 pages
...in order to avoid the confusion, and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. " For the same reason that the limited powers of congress, and the control of the state legislatures,...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1817 - 570 pages
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here, the observations which were applied to the case of biennial...
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr ...

James Madison, John Jay - 1818 - 882 pages
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here, the observations which were applied to the case of biennial...
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Register of Debates in Congress: 22nd ..., Volume 2; Volume 8; Volume 54

United States. Congress - 1825 - 782 pages
...of a large deliberative assembly to be disorderly and tumultuous — "If every Athenian citizen had been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." Mr. P. said he should vote against 44,000 and against 48,000 — he was in favor of 50,000. There is...
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Register of Debates in Congress: 22nd ..., Volume 2; Volume 8; Volume 54

United States. Congress - 1825 - 778 pages
...of a large deliberative assembly to be disorderly and tumultuous — " If every Athenian c.tizen had been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." Mr. P. said he should vote against 44,000 and against 48,000 — he was in favor of 50,000. There is...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution

James Madison, John Jay - 1826 - 736 pages
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here the observations which were applied to the case of biennial...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1837 - 516 pages
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here the observations which were applied to the case of biennial...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1852 - 528 pages
...limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever characters composed, passion never fails...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. It is necessary also to recollect here the observations which were applied to the case of biennial...
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Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1928 - 1000 pages
...very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the scepter from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates,...every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob." The foregoing principles are not only very plain to the sense of everyone, but they are about the only...
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Southern Presbyterian Review, Volume 8

1855 - 646 pages
...intelligent and high-minded men lending their authority to such proceedings. Mr. Madison remarked, "had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob;" and what was true of that ancient Republic should be guarded iigainst in the present day. An assembly...
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