“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.”
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Steven Rabb,
The Founders' Speech to a Nation in Crisis: What the Founders would say to America today.
