...precondition for civilization, as a number of constitutional framers apparently agreed. "A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a...interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations" Madison informed us in Federalist 1O^ The commercial republic was not limited to simply providing for...

...who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a...necessary and ordinary operations, of government. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause because his interest would certainly bias his judgment,...

...who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a...faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government. James Madison Karl Marx saw society as divided into two warring classes, and many observers...

...a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a monied interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity...the necessary and ordinary operations of Government. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment,...

...a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a monied interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity...the necessary and ordinary operations of Government. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment,...

...who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a...different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.'1 It is difficult to be certain whether we would be in accord with Madison's intentions in reducing...

...clashing economic interests remain front and center on the political stage. As Madison strikingly puts it: "The regulation of these various and interfering interests...necessary and ordinary operations of government." It might be imagined that what is needed most of all in a modern republic is a strong and capable executive...

...originate in "the diversity in the faculties of men." Concerning propertied interests, Publius writes that "[t]he regulation of these various and interfering...necessary and ordinary operations of Government." Publius seems to endorse rather than despair at such a situation: although faction is rooted in human...

...society. . . . The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modem legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction...necessary and ordinary operations of government." It does not, generally speaking, seem inaccurate to say that the proc54 Cf. my "Problem of Sovereignty,"...

...Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. . . . The regulation of these various and interfering interests...faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government.35 As can be observed in New York State, these alliances and their positions change in both...