As the natural limit of a democracy is that distance from the central point which will just permit the most remote citizens to assemble as often as t… - Alexander Hamilton

The whole is a mass of fools and knaves; I could almost except you and Meade.

seditions and insurrections are, unhappily, maladies as inseparable from the body politic as tumors and eruptions from the natural body;

I believe the British government forms the best model the world ever produced, and such has been its progress in the minds of the many, that this truth gradually gains ground. This government has for its object public strength and individual security. It is said with us to be unattainable. All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government. They will check the unsteadiness of the second, and as they cannot receive any advantage by a change, they therefore will ever maintain good government. Can a democratic assembly, who annually revolve in the mass of the people, be supposed steadily to pursue the public good?