 It was equally desirable, that the immediate election should be made by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and...  Hearings - Page 8by United States. Congress. House. Committee on election of President, vice president, and representatives in Congress - 1924Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1977 - 1180 pages
...which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow citizens, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations. Hamilton's reasoning was that the electoral college, selected of persons... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1977 - 624 pages
...which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow citizens, will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated investigations. Hamilton's reasoning was that the electoral college, selected of persons... | |
 | Edward Millican - 292 pages
...favourable to deliberation and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements, which were proper to govern their choice. A small number...discernment requisite to so complicated an investigation," he contends. The electors, it seems, through their knowledge of the characters of our leaders, will... | |
 | James S. Fishkin - 1991 - 154 pages
...favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number...information and discernment requisite to so complicated an investigation."42 As things have turned out, all deliberative independence has been removed from the... | |
 | Peter W. Schramm, Bradford P. Wilson - 1993 - 286 pages
...College: "a small number of people, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, [who] will be most likely to possess the information and...discernment requisite to so complicated an investigation." Free from the pressures of other federal offices and from the temptations of "cabal, intrigue, and... | |
 | Richard Vetterli, Gary C. Bryner - 1996 - 294 pages
...favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice. A small number...discernment requisite to so complicated an investigation." The process would tend to "afford as little opportunity as possible to tumult and disorder. . . . The... | |
 | Gary L. Gregg - 1997 - 266 pages
...which were proper to govern their choice. A small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass, will be most likely to possess...discernment requisite to so complicated an investigation (68:393). This indirect mode of election, like that for the Senate, does not make the presidency less... | |
 | James S. Fishkin - 1997 - 270 pages
...president were well-founded. Instead of the public at large, Hamilton argued in Federalist no. 62, "a small number of persons, selected by their fellow...discernment requisite to so complicated an investigation." Hence the initial hopes for the Electoral College. The idea that members of the Electoral College would... | |
 | John F. Freie - 1998 - 228 pages
...1961, 384), removing the selection of a president from the average citizens and giving it to people who "will be most likely to possess the information and...discernment requisite to so complicated an investigation" ("Federalist No. 68" 1961, 412), and giving the court the power of judicial review so that it could... | |
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