Government exists because people's passions will not follow reason and justice without constraint

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

What Alexander Hamilton actually said

Alexander Hamilton 1 Dec 1787 American statesman (1755 or 1757 to 1804)

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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↗The Federalist Papers (1787-1788)gutenberg.org

1 Dec 1787

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