�
��
���
��
�
kaoyan.com
�
�
��
��
�
���
�
�
��
���
http://download.kaoyan.com
2010��
���
ff
fififl
ffi
�
��
���
ff
fififl
ffi
�
��
���
ff
fififl
ffi
�
��
���
ff
fififl
ffi
�
665�
!
"
#
$
%&
�
!
"
#
$
%&
�
!
"
#
$
%&
�
!
"
#
$
%& '
''
'()
*
()
*
()
*()
*+
++
+
,
-./
kaoyan.com 0
123456
17
89:
;<
=
>?
@A
B
CDE
<
F
GHIJK
LMN
OPQ
<
F
GR
ST
UV
PQ
W
X
Y
VZ[
\
]
V^
H
_
`ab
Tacitus c
def
V
divagation
Ag
dhi
jk
l
m
WY
k
2n
o
fp
;q
A
Br
^st
uv
N
w
xy
z{
D
|}v
N
w
xy
<
~
<
B
MV
PQ
WY
V
`
abw
xy
]
NjŁ
P
c
d
k
3n
z
>
VA
<
Ä
Å
Æ
T
VM¨
W
©V
MA
§
y
<
k
¬
Ç
A
;È<
M¢É
ÊË
The founders of our republics have so much merit for the wisdom which they have displayed, that
no task can be less pleasing than that of pointing out the errors into which they have fallen. A
respect for truth, however, obliges us to remark, that they seem never for a moment to have turned
their eyes from the danger to liberty from the overgrown and all-grasping prerogative of an
hereditary magistrate, supported and fortified by an hereditary branch of the legislative authority.
They seem never to have recollected the danger from legislative usurpations, which, by
assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by
executive usurpations. In a government where numerous and extensive prerogatives are placed in
the hands of an hereditary monarch, the executive department is very justly regarded as the source
of danger, and watched with all the jealousy which a zeal for liberty ought to inspire. In a
democracy, where a multitude of people exercise in person the legislative functions, and are
continually exposed, by their incapacity for regular deliberation and concerted measures, to the
ambitious intrigues of their executive magistrates, tyranny may well be apprehended, on some
favorable emergency, to start up in the same quarter. But in a representative republic, where the
executive magistracy is carefully limited; both in the extent and the duration of its power; and
where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly, which is inspired, by a supposed
influence over the people, with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently
numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be
incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes; it is against
the enterprising ambition of this department that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and
exhaust all their precautions.
¬
Â
È>
U
kaoyan.com Ì
Í<ÎÏ
V
Ð
ÑÒ
;
VÓ
ÔÕÖ×
Ø
Ù
suggest@kaoyan.com
k