...argued in Federalist No. 51: "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...and in the next place oblige it to control itself." The former aim is as important as the latter one, because government has the essential function of...

...government — when it argues that, "[i]n framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...and in the next place oblige it to control itself" (Rossiter 1961, 322). America's written constitution of 1789 as finally ratified and later amended,...

...government which is to be administered by men over men," not by angels over men or angels over angels, "the great difficulty lies in this: You must first...and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." As Aristotle puts it, government and people must control one another, in effect governing each other...

...government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experienoe has...

...government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has...

...government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...and in the next place oblige it to control itself. James Madison, federalist Paper No.511 Long before and ever since James Madison penned these immortal...

...anti-Federalist side to his thinking. "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...and in the next place oblige it to control itself," Madison wrote. In other words, government must be powerful, but not too powerful. Power must be divided...

...anti-Federalist side to his thinking. "In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...and in the next place oblige it to control itself," Madison wrote. In other words, government must be powerful, but not too powerful. Power must be divided...

...government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.7 The familiar aspect of this proposition involves deploying human nature, especially the vice...

...human rights. Yet these are meaningless. As James Madison notes in 1787, "In framing a government . . . the great difficulty lies in this: you must first...control the governed; and in the next place oblige il to control itself." (1995, 68) Hayden's citation to Madison is telltale. How does a government control...