The Federalist On the New Constitution Written in the Year 1788
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As the cool and deliberate sense of the community ought, in all governments, and actually will, in all free governments, ultimately prevail over the views of its rulers : sa there are particular moments in public affairs, when the people, ^ stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how... salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth, can regain their authority over the pub- lic mind ? What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped, if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against the tyranny of their own passions ! Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decree- ing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
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