“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt when they degenerate into a populace (rabble or mob), that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper is soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great ca…
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