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Alexander Hamilton

"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."

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"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint."

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"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike."
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"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."
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