Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what James Madison said
ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.
Our restatementFederalist No. 51 is one of the papers (Nos. 49 to 58) whose authorship Hamilton and Madison both claimed; the scholarly consensus, and this Gutenberg text, credit it to Madison.
Where this was said
↗The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)gutenberg.org
All 27 korrents from this piecethis one is 18th
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