...passionate about their beliefs. James Madison in Federalist 10 points out that "as long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...objects to which the latter will attach themselves" (Wills, 1982, p. 43). For political elites, constraint and intensity of belief (passion) appear to...

...claims to one's own talents and possessions. As James Madison wrote in the tenth Federalist, there is a "diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate.... The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government."17 1n the modern liberal view,...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. Here...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...objects to which the latter will attach themselves." 6 Here Madison reminds his readers of another first principle upon which the Constitution rests: the...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...objects to which the latter will attach themselves. (Federalist Papers, 78) According to Madison, diversity of faculties produces a differential in the...

...factional and individual interests. As Publius explained, as long as "the connection subsists [in man] between his reason and his self-love, his opinions...objects to which the latter will attach themselves." Among the people, remote considerations will "rarely prevail over the immediate interest which one...

...Constitution?, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Washington, DC, 1982, pp. 106-26. 7. 'The diversity in the faculties of men, from which...originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...objects to which the latter will attach themselves." In other words, reason must be separated from the "self-love" of the individuals using it, and focused...