 | Arnold J. Heidenheimer, Michael Johnston - 2011 - 850 páginas
...not only as the engine that moves society forward, but also as a safeguard against official abuses: [T]he great security against a gradual concentration...personal motives to resist encroachments of the others . . . Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2001 - 92 páginas
...the separation of governmental powers among "departments but also a system of checks and balances: [T]he great security against a gradual concentration...personal motives to resist encroachments of the others * * * This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives might... | |
 | Cato Institute - 2000 - 254 páginas
...that the interior structure of government needed to be fashioned to check the accumulation of power. "The great security against a gradual concentration...constitutional means and personal motives to resist the encroachments of the others."83 For the most part, this wonderful system has worked as planned,... | |
 | John J. Pitney, Jr. - 2001 - 260 páginas
...powers, he argued, would thwart them. In The Federalist, he built his case with military metaphors: The provision for defense must in this, as in all...cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack . . . that the private interest of every individual, may be a centinel [sic] over the public rights... | |
 | John V. Denson - 2001 - 830 páginas
...powers, checks and balances, and states' rights federalism, political power was to be decentralized: But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consist in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 356 páginas
...members of each department should be as little dependent as possible on those of the others. . . . But the great security against a gradual concentration...personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. . . . Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with... | |
 | John D. Donahue, Joseph S. Nye - 2004 - 386 páginas
...necessary partition of power among the several departments." In "Federalist 51," Madison writes that "the great security against a gradual concentration...personal motives, to resist encroachments of the others" — that is, "ambition must be made to counteract ambition."1- James Madison did not believe in trust.... | |
 | Donald F. Kettl - 2002 - 226 páginas
...gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department," he contended that the key lies in "giving to those who administer each department,...others. The provision for defense must in this, as in other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."... | |
 | John D. Donahue, Joseph S. Nye - 2004 - 380 páginas
...necessary partition of power among the several departments." In "Federalist 51," Madison wrires that "the great security against a gradual concentration...the same department, consists in giving to those who adminisrer each department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist enctoachments... | |
 | Melanie Fonder, Mary Shaffrey - 2002 - 390 páginas
...period of time. But interpretation of its meaning continues more than 200 years after its inception. "[T]he great security against a gradual concentration...the several powers in the same department consists of giving those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives... | |
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against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department, the necessary constitutional means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments of the others. 
