 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 708 pages
...was reprobated by most of their patriotic statesmen. Mr. RANDOLPH was for the term of seven years. The democratic licentiousness of the State Legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. The object of this second branch is, to control the democratic branch of the National Legislature.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 578 pages
...— p. 758. Again, in another place, in organizing the Senate, he was " for the term of seven years. The democratic licentiousness of the State Legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. The object of this second branch is to control the democratic branch of the National Legislature. If... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 600 pages
...— p. 758. Again, in another place, in organizing the Senate, he was " for the term of seven years. The democratic licentiousness of the State Legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. The object of this secdnd branch is to control the democratic branch of the National Legislature. If... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 380 pages
...Randolph and Madison continued the discussion as follows : Mr. Randolph was for the term of seven years. The democratic licentiousness of the State Legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. The object of this second branch is to control the democratic branch of the National Legislature. If... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 404 pages
...Randolph and Madison continued the discussion as follows : Mr. Randolph was for the term of seven years. The democratic licentiousness of the State Legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. The object of this second branch is to control the democratic branch of the National Legislature. If... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - Connecticut - 1857 - 788 pages
...from Connecticut, as well as by those of Massachusetts and South Carolina. Madison and his colleagues proposed three years for the same reason that Sherman...form of electing the same state officers and the same jud^s year after year, with the regularity of the sun and the tides, until the functionaries thus submitted... | |
 | Gideon Hiram Hollister - Connecticut - 1858 - 808 pages
...from Connecticut, as well as by those of Massachusetts and South Carolina. Madison and his colleagues proposed three years for the same reason that Sherman...the licentiousness of state legislatures was at that lime a thing unknown, and where the voters — such was their stability — were in the habit of annually... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...was reprobated by most of their patriotic statesmen. Mr. RANDOLPH was for the term of seven years. The democratic licentiousness of the state legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. The object of this second branch is to control the democratic branch of the national legislature. If... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Constitutional conventions - 1893 - 402 pages
...was reprobated by most of their patriotic statesmen. Mr. RANDOLPH was for the term of seven years. The democratic licentiousness of the State Legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. The object of this second branch is, to control the democratic branch of the National Legislature.... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - Constitutional history - 1893 - 412 pages
...was reprobated by most of their patriotic statesmen. Mr. RANDOLPH was for the term of seven years. The democratic licentiousness of the State Legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. The object of this second branch is, to control the democratic branch of the National Legislature.... | |
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The democratic licentiousness of the state legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. The object of this second branch is to control the democratic branch of the national legislature. If it be not a firm body, the other branch, being more numerous,... 
