| John Brademas - 2002 - 158 páginas
...government and consists, as James Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers, "in giving to those who adminster each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of others. . . . Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." DEALING WITH THE WHITE HOUSE The pattern... | |
| Carnes Lord - 2004 - 312 páginas
...University Press of Kansas, 1999), ch. 6, is an outstanding brief account. 13 The Federalist, no. 68. 14 "But the great security against a gradual concentration...resist encroachments of the others. The provision for defence must in this, as in all other cases, be made commensurate to the danger of attack. Ambition... | |
| Eugene R. Wittkopf, James M. McCormick - 2004 - 420 páginas
...one branch to encroach upon another would be beaten back. As Madison explained in Federalist No. 51: "the great security against a gradual concentration...personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. . . . Ambition must be made to counter ambition." To some extent, this theory has worked well. The... | |
| James A. Curry, Richard B. Riley, Richard M. Battistoni - 2003 - 660 páginas
...members, the real device for ensuring responsible government goes much further than these safeguards: The great security against a gradual concentration...personal motives to resist encroachments of the others. . . . Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." [Emphasis added] And in the famous excerpt from... | |
| Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 páginas
...maintaining the separation of powers. In direct opposition to the no-gap principles, Madison famously said: [T]he great security against a gradual concentration...means, and personal motives, to resist encroachments. . . . Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected to the... | |
| Bereket Habte Selassie - 2003 - 358 páginas
...remarkable similarity to the words of Federalist no. 51 which argues that "the great security against gradual concentration of the several powers in the...personal motives to resist encroachments of the others." Again, Federalist no. 49 observes that the constitutional arrangement gives a blend of powers with... | |
| Mads Qvortrup - 2003 - 162 páginas
...politicians: [T]he great security against gradual concentration of several powers in some departments consists in giving to those who administer each department...means and personal motives to resist encroachments of others. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. (Madison in Hamilton et al, 1961: 319) The different... | |
| Samuel Kernell - 2003 - 400 páginas
...for the emoluments annexed to their offices." Par. 4a: But the best way to keep the branches separate "consists in giving to those who administer each department...means and personal motives to resist encroachments." Then comes the most quotable of Madison's passages: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.... | |
| Ian Shapiro - 2009 - 196 páginas
...inadequate and must be supplemented, as he elaborates in Federalist No. 51, by additional provisions giving "those who administer each department the necessary...personal motives to resist encroachments of the others" ([1788] 1966: 150-51, 159-60). Important as this distinction is, it is tar from clear that the institutional... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 2003 - 80 páginas
...great security against a gradual concentration" of governmental powers in one of the three branches "consists in giving to those who administer each Department...constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of the others." In your testimony, you briefly discuss one of these "constitutional means."... | |
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