CONSTITUTIONAL
LIBERTY
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In Which Is Shown the Right of a Nation to Secede from
a Compact of Federation and That Such Right
Is Necessary to Constitutional Liberty
and a Surety of Union
Volume II
"If the distribution of power among the several parts of the State is
the most efficient restraint on monarchy, the distribution of power among
several States is the best check on democracy . . . the protectorate of
minorities, and the consecration of self-government. . . . The repentance
of the Athenians came too late to save the Republic. But the lesson of
their experience endures. . . it teaches that government by the whole
people, being the government of the most numerous and most powerful
class, is an evil of the same nature as unmixed monarchy, and requires,
for nearly the same reasons, institutions that shall protect it against it-
self, and . . . uphold the permanent reign of law against arbitrary
revolutions of opinion."
-LORD ACTON, "Freedom in Antiquity."
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