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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
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NUMBER:
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765 |
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AUTHOR:
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James Madison (1751–1836) |
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QUOTATION:
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The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands. Stability, on the contrary, requires, that the hands, in which power is lodged, should continue for a length of time, the same. A frequent change of men will result from a frequent return of electors, and a frequent change of measures, from a frequent change of men; whilst energy in Government requires not only a certain duration of power, but the execution of it by a single hand. |
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ATTRIBUTION:
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JAMES MADISON, The Federalist, ed. Benjamin F. Wright, no. 37, p. 268 (1961). |
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SUBJECTS:
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Government—by the people |
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