A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.
Tag: John C. Calhoun
(1782-1850) American statesman, U.S. Senator from South Carolina.
Built-in excess
Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
The tyranny of majority rule
The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised … [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.