Sublime

For the next two decades, Sam Rayburn held power in Washington. Presidents came and went—Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy—but whoever was President, Sam Rayburn was Speaker; he held the post he had dreamed of as a boy for almost seventeen of the twenty-one years after 1940, more years than any other man in American history.

Selon Madison, la démocratie, qu’il rejette, se caractérise au contraire par le pouvoir du peuple dans son sens social, c’est-à-dire de la plèbe, des non-propriétaires, des pauvres. Or, du point de vue des défenseurs du gouvernement représentatif, les pauvres sont porteurs d’un danger pour la société, parce que fondamentalement, ils veulent le chan

But in the case of Andrew Jackson it may be that I felt a special sense of individual isolation; for I believe that there are even fewer among Englishmen than among Americans who realise that the energy of that great man was largely directed towards saving us from the chief evil which destroys the nations to-day. He sought to cut down, as with a sw

To paraphrase President James Madison, since humans are fallible, a government is necessary, but since government too is fallible, it needs mechanisms to expose and correct its errors, such as holding regular elections, protecting the freedom of the press, and separating the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.