Setting up a government

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In contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, than private interest.

David Hume

Essays, Moral and Political

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Hume, David. "Of the Independency of Parliament." Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1741, no. 8.

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Hume, David. "Of the Independency of Parliament." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 4.

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Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Raleigh, Walter. The Cabinet-Council. London: Thomas Johnson, 1658, ch. 26.

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We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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Hamilton, Alexander. Debates of the Federal Convention. Constitutional Convention. 26 June 1787, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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