...reflections on human nature?" While government is the greatest, it is anything but unique. Madison mused that "this policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests,...system of human affairs, private as well as public" (Rossiter 1961, 322). If anything, the focus on the omnipresence of self-interest understates the motivational...

...drives,23 rests on "supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, [that] might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public."24 Through opposing forces, without virtuous or reasoned intention, a properly designed government...

...infinite number of private interests (thus guarding against the formation of a permanent majority). "This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives," was James Madison's answer to the lack of social altruism among the people and to the past abuses of...

...accord with the general governmental design scheme of the framers of the Constitution, which embodied a "policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives" (Federalist No. 5 1 [Madison]). However, the First Amendment was intended to supply more than a simple...

...precautions" are called for, even in a democracy. If we cannot turn mere mortals into angels, we can, "through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public" prevent any single set of individuals from dominating others. In all important distributions of power,...

...of interests necessary to privilege desired results. The Constitution, Madison wrote, adopted "the policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives."47 State interests were protected by government institutions that required all national decisions...

...balances among the three branches to be a frequent and lively occurrence. Another quote is exemplary: This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests,...displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power; offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other; that the private interest of every...

...Federalist No. 51, James Madison articulated his ideal of checks and balances as "subordinate distribution of power, where the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner that each may be a check on the other." In an 1885 essay, Congressional Government, Woodrow Wilson...

...angels no government would be necessary ... This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interest the defect of better motives, might be traced through...the whole system of human affairs, private as well public."17 Aus diesem Zitat und dem gesamten Abschnitt über das Menschenbild der „Federalist Papers"...

...angels no government would be necessary ... This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interest the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole System of human affairs, private äs well public" Mit diesem System, die rivalisierender Interessen auszugleichen, legte die amerikanische...