The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty a…

James Madison
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The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society. ✨ James Madison (1867). 1769-1793, p.353
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