Posted on 09/01/2014 5:31:53 AM PDT by grundle
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The Federalist # 57
The third charge against the House of Representatives is, that it will be taken from the class of citizens which will have least sympathy with the mass of the people, and be most likely to aim at an ambitious sacrifice of the many to the aggrandizement of the few.
Of all of the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. While the objection itself is leveled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.
The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society, and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust. The elective mode of obtaining rulers is the characteristic policy of republican government. The means relied on in this form of government for preventing their degeneracy are numerous and various.
/Federalist #57
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