Madison

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    What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    Public instability ... gives ... [an] unreasonable advantage ... to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the industrious and uninformed mass of the people.
    —James Madison (1751–1836)