Power and Liberty Quotes

“There was no doubt, said Madison, that magisterial or executive “power, when it has attained a certain degree of energy and independence goes on generally to further degrees” and to become despotic and subvert liberty.”
― Gordon S. Wood, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

“practice of separation of powers, the modern idea of a constitution as a written document, the device of specially elected conventions for creating and amending constitutions, and the process of popular ratification.”
― Gordon S. Wood, Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution