...every government is economic. 1. "The first object of government," he declares, is the protection of "the diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate." The chief business of government, from which, perforce, its essential nature must be derived, consists...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...which the rights of property originate, is not less an unsuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object...

...appeal for ratification on practical grounds: "The first object of government" is the protection of "the diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate." After enumerating the chief classes of property holders which spring up inevitably under such protection...

...really serious writings and is formulated in its most precise fashion in The Federalist as follows: "The diversity in the faculties of men, from which...originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From...

...colonies severed their connection with the mother country. Madison, in the tenth Federalist, spoke of, "The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate," and he added, — "From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves.20 Madison confronts the dual problem of not being able to adjudicate rationally between...

...of inequality in property (Karimsky 1976c, 221-222). In "Federalist 10," for example, Madison says, The diversity in the faculties of men, from which...originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From...

...stated and combined liberalism and republicanism. Just to insert one citation that condenses the former: "The diversity in the faculties of men, from which...originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government" (The...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of Government. From...

...fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his...originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From...