 | Derek Matravers, Jonathan E. Pike - 2003 - 468 pages
...is suggested in Dworkin (1985), pp. 61-3. He cites the following passage from a letter of Madison's: 'And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives' (emphasis added). 24 On the distinction between content-based and content-neutral... | |
 | Matthew J. Gibney - 2003 - 290 pages
...Amendment of the US Constitution guaranteeing the right of free speech, captured the crux of the argument: A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of" acquiring it... | |
 | Alan L. Heil - 2003 - 564 pages
...American perspective in all its diversity.5 Conclusion Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. — James Madison And let thy feet — millenniums hence — be set in knowledge.... | |
 | Paul Waldman - 2004 - 364 pages
...on the very idea of openness in government. Bush understands well what James Madison warned, that, "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people...their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."4 He has apparendy decided that his work depends on keeping Americans ignorant.... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2004 - 468 pages
...information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; And a people...own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." 139 I know, of course, that this vision is contestable. At best, it describes... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration - 2004 - 112 pages
...information, or the means of acquiring it. is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people...own Governors, must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. Congress moved early to establish the "means of acquiring" information that Madison... | |
 | Sally Mahe, Kathy Covert - 2004 - 228 pages
...or the means t — C/of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people...their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. JAMES MAOISON, US PRESIOENT, 1809-1817 JANUARY 10 C jj Je hold these truths to... | |
 | Daniel J Solove - 2004 - 283 pages
...information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people...own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."5 According to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: It is desirable that the trial... | |
 | Marianela Cedeño Bonilla - 2004 - 168 pages
...enforcing environmental governance norms. 1 . The Right to Access to Information "Information is power and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives" James Madison The right to access to information is considered first in time... | |
 | Ben H. Bagdikian - 2004 - 324 pages
...crude radio was born, but what he wrote more than two hundred years ago proclaims the same principle: "A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring... | |
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with... 
