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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... "
Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of ... - Página 65
por American Institute of Instruction - 1877
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We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of ...

Scott Gant - 2007 - 259 páginas
...informing the public about issues of importance. James Madison believed that "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." To Madison and other Founders, the press played an indispensable role in...
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Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency

Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil - 2007
...exterior of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, James Madison declared: "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...
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Governmental Transparency in the Path of Administrative Reform

Suzanne J. Piotrowski - 2012 - 152 páginas
...through transparency. In 1822, James Madison wrote in a personal correspondence: 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...
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Access to Government in the Computer Age: An Examination of State Public ...

Martha Chumbler - 2007 - 244 páginas
...James Madison to WT Barry (Aug. 4, 1822), quoted in Splichal, Introduction at 6 ("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"); Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Baron von Humboldt (1807), as excerpted...
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What Good is Journalism?: How Reporters and Editors are Saving America's Way ...

George Kennedy, Daryl R. Moen - 2007 - 181 páginas
...Constitution. James Madison, the principal author of the First Amendment, wrote in 1822, "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." should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether...
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Liberty Under Attack: Reclaiming Our Freedoms in an Age of Terror A Century ...

Richard C. Leone, Gregory Anrig, C Leone - 2007 - 294 páginas
...of the Constitution and the recognized author of the Bill of Rights, said that "a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to farce or tragedy or perhaps both." More than five years after the attacks of 9/11, this principle of...
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Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia

Susan Dunn - 2007 - 322 páginas
...popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it," Madison wrote in 1822, "is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy, or perhaps to both." Like Jefferson, Madison understood that for self-government to work, men who intend to be their own...
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Copyright's Paradox

Neil Weinstock Netanel - 2008 - 288 páginas
...while also forging a sense of national identity. As James Madison aptly put it, "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." Part and parcel of this vision was an understanding that democratic governance...
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Volatile Knowing: Parents, Teachers, and the Censored Story of ...

Kaia Tollefson - 2008 - 226 páginas
...information, democracy of any type is an illusion. In the words of James Madison, 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...
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A Short Course in Intellectual Self Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky

Normand Baillargeon - 2011 - 336 páginas
...memory? Not to the extent that it remembers the last time it 266 CHAPTER 5 THE MEDIA 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...
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