 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...balance of power in a society, accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of...quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates. If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - 1894 - 592 pages
...balance of power in a society, accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of...quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates. If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance... | |
 | Correa Moylan Walsh - 1915 - 400 pages
...period he had followed Harrington more closely. He had then written, in 1776: "The only possible way of preserving the balance of power on the side of...quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates. If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance... | |
 | Mary Lambert Shine - 1922 - 432 pages
...318-320,321,352,355, 360,392 (1791) (54) TbTd.. 267 (1782). (55) Ibid.. IV, 186 (1793 ) ;IX,68 (1787). ing the "balance of power on the side of equal liberty...land into small quantities, so that the multitude may he possessed of landed estates. If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude... | |
 | California. Office of Planning and Research - 1979 - 68 pages
...balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of...land into small quantities, so that the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue... | |
 | Library of Congress - 1980 - 538 pages
...declared, was "to make the acquisition of land easy to ever)1 member of society," or "to make a division of land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates."4 If, indeed, weak and unpropertied men — such as those who dominated the social landscape... | |
 | John Brinckerhoff Jackson - 1984 - 188 pages
...independence. Here is John Adams repeating Classical saws: "The only possible way then of preserving public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society: to make the division of land into small quantities, so that the multitudes may be possessed of landed estates."... | |
 | Thomas L. Pangle - 1990 - 344 pages
...Adams's Letter to James Sullivan of May 26, 1776, in 1854, vol. 9, 376-77: The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of...quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates. If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance... | |
 | Marc W. Kruman - 1997 - 244 pages
...should be easy for "every Member of Society" to acquire land. Land, Adams urged, should be divided "into Small Quantities, So that the Multitude may be possessed of landed Estates." If "the Multitude" owned the land, they would hold the "Ballance of Power" and "take Care... | |
 | William G. Shade - 1998 - 314 pages
...Jefferson's constitutional penmanship on behalf of his beloved state. "The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of...quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates." 41 Both men were clearly indebted for their rationale to Harrington; but the particular formulation... | |
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The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue, is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society... 
