by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 16, 2015 | The Executive
Public officers in the United States are commingled with the crowd of citizens; they have neither palaces, nor guards, nor ceremonial costumes. This simple exterior of the persons in authority is connected, not only with the peculiarities of the American character,...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 16, 2015 | The Executive
The legislature passes legislation and the role of the executive branch is to administer it precisely and faithfully. Executive officers should generally be indistinguishable from ordinary bureaucrats except for their direct responsibility to the voting public....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 16, 2015 | Democracy
The unprincipled Before men are put forward into the great trusts of the State, they ought by their conduct to have obtained such a degree of estimation in their country, as may be some sort of pledge and security to the public, that they will not abuse those trusts....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 16, 2015 | Democracy
On a memorable occasion the assembled Athenians declared it monstrous that they should be prevented from doing whatever they chose. No force that existed could restrain them; and they resolved that no duty should restrain them, and that they would be bound by no laws...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 16, 2015 | Democracy
When the people, who have no property, feel the power in their own hands to determine all questions by a majority, they ever attack those who have property, till the injured men of property lose all patience, and recur to finesse, trick, and stratagem, to outwit those...
