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" If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies... "
Register of Debates in Congress: 22nd Congress, 2nd session, pt. 1. Dec. 3 ... - Page 297
by United States. Congress - 1833
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 451

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1982 - 1050 pages
...angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered...and in the next place oblige it to control itself." The Federalist Papers 322 (1961). (Emphasis supplied.) I believe we have in our judicial decisions...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1817 - 570 pages
...government would be necessary. In framing a government, which is to be administered by men overmen, the great difficulty lies in this : You must first...the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. This policy of...
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr ...

James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1818 - 882 pages
...nor Tiial controls on government would be necessary, framing a government which is to he administered men over men, the great difficulty lies in this :...the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience urns taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions) This policy...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 9; Volume 56

United States. Congress - Law - 1838 - 684 pages
...execution of this principle rigorously, " all appointments for the supreme executive, legislative, anid judiciary magistracies should be drawn from the same...men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you mustfirst enable the Government to control the governed; and, in the next place, oblige it to control...
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Register of Debates in Congress

John Hohnes - 1833 - 682 pages
...rigorously, ' all appointments for the supreme executive, legisla' magistracies should be drawn from the authority, the people, through channels having no...men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you mustfirst enable the Government to control the governed; and, in the next place, oblige it to control...
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The Congressional Globe

United States. Congress - United States - 1833 - 686 pages
...powers in the sime department " consists ' entertained such fears were called political dreamers, ягin giving to those who administer each department the...men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you mustfirst enable guing against the plain sense and meaning of the instrument. It was over and overagain...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional history - 1837 - 516 pages
...angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered...the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. This policy...
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A Course of Lectures on the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United ...

William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1845 - 436 pages
...department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments from the others. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience had shown the framers of our Constitution the necessity of auxiliary precautions...
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The Federalist: On the New Constitution, Written in 1788

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered...the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government ; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. This policy...
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Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times

George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...violence of the stronger." And in the same number hi says, that "in framing a government which is to DC administered by men, over men, the great difficulty...dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control of the government; but experii-nce has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions." These,...
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