 | Harvey Flaumenhaft - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 340 pages
...palpable sacrifice of the public good by the enactment of improper laws. This negative establishes a salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated...guard the community against the effects of faction, of precipitancy, or of any impulse unfriendly to the public good which may happen to influence a majority... | |
 | Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn - Conspiracy theories - 1994 - 242 pages
...executive, but it furnishes an additional security against the enaction of improper laws. It establishes a salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated...public good, which may happen to influence a majority of that body. The propriety of a negative has, upon some occasions, been combated by an observation... | |
 | Jean Reith Schroedel - Political Science - 1994 - 262 pages
...departments" (Madison, Hamilton, and Jay, 1987 edition: 418). But Hamilton viewed the veto also as "a salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated...public good, which may happen to influence a majority of that body" (Madison, Hamilton, Jay, 1987 edition: 418). 7. The recognition of only minimal constitutional... | |
 | George Wescott Carey - History - 1994 - 220 pages
...check against factious or misguided majorities in the legislative branch. As he put it, the veto is "a salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated to guard the community against the effect of faction, precipitancy, or of any impulse unfriendly to the public good, which may happen... | |
 | Gary L. Gregg - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 266 pages
...cannot always be counted on to act wisely or from the right motives. The qualified veto "establishes a salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated...public good, which may happen to influence a majority of that body" (73:41 8). To properly wield his veto, the president is to act energetically and with... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 1998 - 220 pages
...executive, but it furnishes an additional security against the enaction of improper laws. It establishes a salutary check upon the legislative body calculated...public good which may happen to influence a majority of that body. The propriety of a negative has upon some occasions been combated by an observation that... | |
 | John P. Kaminski, Richard Leffler - History - 1998 - 244 pages
...executive, but it furnishes an additional security against the enaction of improper laws. It establishes a salutary check upon the legislative body calculated...precipitancy, or of any impulse unfriendly to the public good, wh1ch may happen to influence a majority of that body. The propriety of a negative, has upon some occasions... | |
 | Richard J. Ellis - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 340 pages
...executive, but it furnishes an additional security against the enaction of improper laws. It establishes a salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated...public good which may happen to influence a majority of that body. New York Independent Journal. March 21, 1788. The propriety of a negative has, upon some... | |
 | Michael Meyerson - Mathematics - 2002 - 304 pages
..."[The veto] furnishes an additional security against the enaction of improper laws. It establishes a salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated...public good, which may happen to influence a majority of that body" (Federalist No. 73). 75 "defend the Executive Rights": James Madison, September 12, 1787,... | |
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It not only serves as a shield to the executive, but it furnishes an additional security against the enaction of improper laws. It establishes a salutary check upon the legislative body, calculated to guard the community against the effects of faction,... 
