Federalist essays 10
“The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations”
“Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.”
Federalist essays 51
“Second. It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.”
“In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.”
I think the American form of government works because there are basic rights set into place that the people have, and we make sure that nobody oversteps these bounds. Through this system, we are able to control the power that both the people and the government has. Also, the people were making the government that they envisioned as ideal, so people were willing to try to make the government work.
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