...12. This notion comes directly from Alexander Hamilton on the floor of the Constitutional Convention: "All communities divide themselves into the few and...and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been...

...depravity."5 Then, having heard the voice of the people and deeming it depraved, Hamilton concluded: "The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class [the wealthy] a distinct, permanent share in the government." 6 Since Hamilton believed...

...to endow the propertied classes with this permanent authority to check the imprudence of democracy: All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people. . . The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom...

...voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right" (Farrand 1966,1:299). Why? Because, as James Madison declared in Federalist 10, they lacked "a republican...

...Hamilton, George Washington's closest adviser and the first secretary of the treasury. Hamilton wrote, “All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people... . Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent...

...support an aristocratic senate composed of representatives of the plutocracy elected for a life term. ‘All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are rich and well-born and the other the mass of the people who seldom judge or determine right.” But...

...voice of God. And however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right." 3 James Bryce cited an unnamed writer as describing the founders' conception of public opinion as "aggressive,...

...government has for its object public strength and individual security." He went even further on June 26: All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and wellborn, the other the mass of the people. .. . The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom...

...unsteadiness of the people. “All communities divide themselves into the few and the many,” he wrote. “The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been...

...produced, and such has been its progress in the minds of many that this truth gradually gains ground. All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are rich and well born; the other, the mass of the pcople." He then states that the rich and well-born...