Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from pages 38-39 of the 1981 Liberty Fund edition of Felix Morley‘s 1959 volume, Freedom and Federalism:

It is perhaps too much to say that Madison‘s thinking denied any validity to the conception of a general will. But it was certainly careful to ensure that if there is a general will it shall not at any time or place run roughshod over the individual.