“[a truly republican government] derives all its power directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure, for a limited period, or during good behavior.”
American statesman, diplomat, expansionist, philosopher and Founding Father
“the federal republic of the United States… all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.”
“frequent appeals to the public [would remove] hat veneration which time bestows on every thing, and without which perhaps the wisest and freest governments would not possess the requisite stability.”
American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, philosopher and Founding Father
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
