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James Bryce believed that the Founders intended that the American President would be “a reduced and improved copy of the English king” (1885)
Assuming that there was to be such a magistrate [the office of President], the statesmen of the C...
Viscount Bryce on how the President in wartime becomes “a sort of dictator” (1888)
The direct domestic authority of the president is in time of peace very small, because by far the...
Madame de Staël on how liberty is ancient and despotism is modern (1818)
It is of importance to repeat to those who are the advocates of rights founded on the past, that ...
Paine on the idea that the law is king (1776)
But where, say some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you, friend, he reigns above, and doth not...
Pollock on “our lady” the common law and her devoted servants (1911)
There seems to be no ground for affirming that the Common Law is especially attached to any one f...
Guizot on liberty and reason (1851)
Power proves its legitimacy, that is to say, its conformity to the eternal reason, by making itse...
Benjamin Constant argued that mediocre men, when they acquired power, became “more envious, more obstinate, more immoderate, and more convulsive” than men with talent (1815)
The choice of the people belongs to men who command attention, who attract respect, who have acqu...