 When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed, to be the guardians of those interests ; to withstand the temporary delusion, in order...  Democracy in America - Stran 137avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Gary L. Gregg - 1997 - 266 strani
...71 it is made perfectly clear what representative style is to be followed in the American Republic: "When occasions present themselves in which the interests...variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be guardians of those interests to withstand the temporary... | |
 | James S. Fishkin - 1997 - 270 strani
...elected they were, by design, in a position to resist the immediate expressions of public opinion: "When occasions present themselves in which the interests...variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests to withstand the temporary... | |
 | Bradford P. Wilson, Ken Masugi - 1998 - 328 strani
...PUBLIC GOOD," but they are sometimes mistaken about the means of promoting it. When that happens, when the "interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary... | |
 | Joseph M. Bessette - 1994 - 316 strani
..."who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests";1" or between interests and inclinations — "[O]ccasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations."112 It follows that the proper standard for evaluating the democratic character of deliberative... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1998 - 220 strani
...beset as they continually are by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate; by the artifices of...variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests to withstand the temporary... | |
 | Richard J. Ellis - 1999 - 340 strani
...as they continually are, by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of...variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary... | |
 | Ralph A. Rossum - 2001 - 324 strani
...separation of powers cannot permanently frustrate the wishes of the people, on those occasions when "the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations," it so structures these institutions that they are able to "withstand the temporary delusions" of people,... | |
 | Andrew Sabl - 2009 - 368 strani
...the people's considered, deliberate public assessment of interest rather their short-term passions: "When occasions present themselves in which the interests...variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests to withstand the temporary... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1996 - 588 strani
...as they continually are, by the wiles of parasites and sycophants, by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious, the desperate, by the artifices of...possess their confidence more than they deserve it, and those who seek to possess rather than to deserve it. When occasions present themselves, in which the... | |
 | Richard Stengel - 2002 - 326 strani
...remedy that the Greeks did: frankness, candor, and not poring over the poll results every morning. "When occasions present themselves in which the interests...the people are at variance with their inclinations," Hamilton says, "it is the duty of the person whom they have appointed to be the guardian of those interests,... | |
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