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1. The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor
does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
2. No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its
bosom that is stronger than the law.
3. Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical
relation to each other.
4. Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and
not by particular exceptions.
5. It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion
for law.
This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their
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