Jose Luis’s Reviews > Democracy in America > Status Update

“The existence of democracies is threatened by two principal dangers: namely, the complete subjection of the legislature to the will of the electoral body, and the concentration of all the other powers of the government in the legislative branch.”

136, 151 gas son incisive commentary on the re-election of the executive and the importance of the judicial powers.

“There is no country in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.”

“Do what you may, there is no true power among men except in the free union of their will; and patriotism and religion are the only two motives in the world that can long urge all the people towards the same end.”