 | Richard S. Katz - 1997 - 358 pages
...government, a feat Madison implied would be impossible. Assuming that the system just outlined would be able to "guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part," it is still of "great importance in a republic ... to guard the society against the oppression of its... | |
 | Alan R. Hirsch, Akhil Reed Amar - 1999 - 288 pages
...People from a self-dealing government. In the Federalist Papers, James Madison famously declared that it is of "great importance in a republic not only...of the society against the injustice of the other part."2 For some reason, the legal community focuses almost exclusively on Madison's second issue (protection... | |
 | Akhil Reed Amar - 1998 - 448 pages
...The Federalist No. 51 that "[i]t is of great importanee in a republic not only to guard the soc1ety against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard...of the society against the injustice of the other part."6 The conventional understanding of the Bill seems to focus almost exclusively on the second... | |
 | Orrin G. Hatch - 1998 - 326 pages
...made perfectly clear that "in the compound republic of America," it is unacceptable when attempting "to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part," to lodge that power in "a will in the community independent of the majority. On the contrary: In a... | |
 | Lance Banning - 1995 - 566 pages
...both the Senate and the House followed shortly after Madison's insistence that there were two ways "to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other," the minority against majorities "united by a common interest": The one by creating a will in the community... | |
 | David T. Canon - 1999 - 339 pages
...Tyranny of the Majority, Guinier, for example, approvingly quotes Madison's assertion that '"[i]fa majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure'" (1994, 3). Applying this idea to a broad range of racial issues, Alexandra Natapoff observes that "the... | |
 | Michael Bronski - 2000 - 362 pages
...scholar Lani Guinier calls "the tyranny of the majority." Responding to James Madison's worry that "[I]fa majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure," Guinier has approached this problem of "fundamental fairness" in a democracy and has postulated what... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Stephen D. Grant, Sanford Kessler - 2001 - 376 pages
..."not only to defend the society against the oppression of those who govern it, but also to safeguard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Justice is the end to which any government must aspire; this is the end which men intend by uniting... | |
 | Cynthia L. Cates, Wayne V. McIntosh - 2001 - 264 pages
...different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself. ... It is of great importance in a republic not only to...interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure. [The best] . . . method ... of providing against this evil . . . [is] by comprehending in the society... | |
 | Christina Duffy Burnett, Burke Marshall - 2001 - 448 pages
...along with the accompanying application of a republican scheme of representation, serves to "not only guard the society against the oppression of its rulers"...of the society against the injustice of the other part."24 Inasmuch as "society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests and classes of citizens,"... | |
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It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. 
