As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism. - Alexander Hamilton

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

there is, in the nature of sovereign power, an impatience of control, that disposes those who are invested with the exercise of it, to look with an evil eye upon all external attempts to restrain or direct its operations. From this spirit it happens, that in every political association which is formed upon the principle of uniting in a common interest a number of lesser sovereignties, there will be found a kind of eccentric tendency in the subordinate or inferior orbs, by the operation of which there will be a perpetual effort in each to fly off from the common centre. This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for. It has its origin in the love of power.

It is a sound and important principle that the representative ought to be acquainted with the interests and circumstances of his constituents.