...quarter. Wherever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done, and not less readily by a powerful and interested party, than by a powerful and interested prince. The difference, so far as it relates to the superiority of republies over monarchies, lies in the less...

...liberty. * * * Whenever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done, and not less readily by a powerful and interested party than by a powerful and interested prince." His policy, as shown by his correspondence with Mazzei, Governor Randolph, and others, was to avoid...

...Where there is an interest and a power to do wrong," he says, " wrong will generally be done, and not less readily by a powerful and interested party than by a powerful and interested prince." f Maine, who was quite as friendly toward aristocracy, agrees with him. " Under the shelter of one...

...quarter. Wherever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done, and not less readily by a powerful and interested party than by a powerful and interested prince. The difference, so far as it relates to the superiority of republics over monarchies, lies in the less...

...them, than on yours, which has contemplated the abuses of power issuing from a very different quarter. Where there is an interest and a power to do wrong,...party, than by a powerful and interested prince." He suggests, however, that a Bill of Rights in a popular government might serve the purpose of declaring...

...republics, always set their faces sternly against plunder, extortion, and repudiation? "Wherever the rfeal power of government lies," Madison declared, "there...government shall survive. THE CITIZEN AS A LAW-MAKER THE CITIZEN AS A LAW-MAKER If the United States has ever possessed a great citizen, it was Abraham...

...attended to. Wherever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done, and not less readily by a powerful and interested party than by a powerful and interested prince.' " We should be guardians of the religious liberty of all citizens. If the principle involved " Put...

...the Government contrary to the sense of the constituents but from acts in which the Government is a mere instrument of the major number of constituents....interested party than by a powerful and interested prince. In strong contrast with the similar guaranties of Great Britain to its English subjects, these American...

...their power. This problem was fully understood by the deep-thinking Americans. James Madison said : " Where there is an interest and a power to do wrong,...interested party than by a powerful and interested prince." It was Abraham Lincoln who said: "A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations,...

...words: "Whenever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done, and not less readily by a powerful and interested party than by a powerful and interested prince."1 Madison, unlike Aristotle and Maine, would certainly not have agreed with Dr. Johnson, who...