 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 700 pages
...people, insisting that it ought to be by the State Legislatures. The people, he said, immediately, should have as little to do as may be about the government....information, and are constantly liable to be misled. Mr. GERRY. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue,... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 692 pages
...people, insisting that it ought to be by the State Legislatures. The people, he said, immediately, should have as little to do as may be about the government....information, and are constantly liable to be misled. Mr. GERRY. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue,... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 708 pages
...people, insisting that it ought to be by the State Legislatures. The people, he said, immediately, should have as little to do as may be about the government....information, and are constantly liable to be misled. Mr. GERRY. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1841 - 578 pages
...Legislature, insisting that it ought to be by the State Legislatures. The people, he said, immediately should have as little to do as may be about the government....information, and are constantly liable to be misled." — p. 753. But, lest these persons should be considered as expressing the sentiments of the aristocratic... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1845 - 672 pages
...people, insisting that it ought to be by the state legislatures. The people, he said, immediately, should have as little to do as may be about the government....information, and are constantly liable to be misled. Mr. GER11Y. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue,... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1845 - 688 pages
...states," being taken up, — it ought to be by the state legislatures. The people, he said, irnmedi ately, should have as little to do as may be about the government....information, and are constantly liable to be misled. Mr. GERRY. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue,... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1846 - 532 pages
...continually nearer to the English. Mr. Sherman, in the debate on the new constitution, declared that the people should have as little to do as may be about...want information, and are constantly liable to be misled.f Washington said to Jefferson : " I foresee that sooner or later we shall be obliged to adopt... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 384 pages
...people, insisting that it ought to be by the State Legislatures. The people, he said, immediately, should have as little to do as may be about the government....information, and are constantly liable to be misled. chusetts for the reduction of salaries, and the attack made on that of the Governor, though secured... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 404 pages
...people, insisting that it ought to be by the State Legislatures. The people, he said, immediately, should have as little to do as may be about the government...They want information, and are constantly liable to b« misled. Mr. Gerry. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 380 pages
...ought to be by the State Legislature's. The people, he said, immediately, should have as little to do a may be about the government. They want information, and are constantly liable to be misled. Mr. Gerry. The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue,... | |
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proceedings illustrate this point; they are typical, and are as follows: P. 78. Sherman of Connecticut said: "The people should have as little to do as may be about the Government. They want information and are constantly liable to be misled." Gerry,... 
