 | Harry F. Atwood - 1918 - 202 pages
...opposed to the concert and accomplishment of the secret wishes of an unjust and interested majority. ... If we resort for a criterion to the different principles...powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited... | |
 | Martin Joseph Wade - Constitutional law - 1920 - 252 pages
...vote."—Cyclopaedia of American Government, III. p. 188. "A Republic, in the modern sense of the term, is a government which derives all its powers -directly, or indirectly, from the great body of the people, ie the majority—and is administered by persons holding their offices for a limited... | |
 | Charles Grove Haines, Bertha Moser Haines - Political science - 1921 - 626 pages
...representatives. The nature of this republic was thus defined by James Madison: We will define a republic to be a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people and is , administered by persons holding their offices for a limited period or during... | |
 | California - Constitutional history - 1923 - 1128 pages
...the constitutional convention, said: "... If we resort for a criterion to the different prineiples on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or may at least bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly... | |
 | Louise Burnham Dunbar - Monarchy - 1922 - 614 pages
...declared the British monarchy 21 The Federalist (Ford ed.), xliii. "Farrand, op. cit.,, I 432. »»" . . .a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is adm1nistered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited... | |
 | Rodney Loomer Mott - Local government - 1925 - 420 pages
...republic, show the extreme inaccuracy with which the term has been used in political disquisitions. If we resort for a criterion to the different principles...powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - United States - 1925 - 712 pages
...federal republic, an indissoluble league of republican states. And a republic, as Madison defined it, "is a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people." The states of the Union are not, like the departments of the French republic, mere... | |
 | James Kerr Pollock - United States - 1927 - 376 pages
...republic, show the extreme inaccuracy with which the term has been used in political disquisitions. If we resort for a criterion to the different principles...powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited... | |
 | Law - 1911 - 526 pages
...States, concerning which Mr. James Madison, a member of the Constitutional Convention, said: * * * If we resort for a criterion to the different principles...are established, we may define a republic to be, or may at least bestow that name on a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from... | |
 | Law - 1903 - 542 pages
...intervention of agents. Mr. Madison, when speaking of what, and in what, a republic consists, said: "If we resort for a criterion to the different principles...government are established, we may define a republic to be, * * * a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people,... | |
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... a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior. 
