...necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control...and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. — James Madison, Federalist no. 51, February 6, 1788 MAKING A SUSTAINABLE PEACE is not unlike making...

...infinite number of private interests (thus guarding against the formation of a permanent majority). "This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives," was James Madison's answer to the lack of social altruism among the people and to the past abuses of...

...informed Madison's remark that "in framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to controul the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to controul itself." 15 The natural rights...

...Madison in The Federalist, No. 51: "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to controul the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to controul itself. A dependence on the people...

...accord with the general governmental design scheme of the framers of the Constitution, which embodied a "policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives" (Federalist No. 5 1 [Madison]). However, the First Amendment was intended to supply more than a simple...

...government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by 28 men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first...taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. If a government shrouds its actions in secrecy, it is able to act without any controls at all. Neither...

...government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions ."Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, 77/e Federalist Papers (New York: Mentor, 1961),...

...government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administrating by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions". The authors of the Federalist Papers apply their realistic image of men also to the head of state and...

...controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. Here the government works like a market: a large number of competing departments prevent the emergence...

...government would be necessary. ... In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first...experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.10 Yet the Founders did not think that human nature was irretrievably grasping and corrupt....