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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.
As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust, so there are other qualities in human nature which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form.
Our restatementFederalist No. 55 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
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