Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and int…

James Madison
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Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens. ✨ Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788, p.55
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