Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what James Madison said
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.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
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 19th
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