The Lives And Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United ... 2
The Lives And Times of the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of the United ... 2
Henry Flanders
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We are not bound to adopt it, if we disapprove of it. Had not every individual in this community a right to tender that scheme which he thought most conducive to the welfare of his country ? Have not several gentlemen already demonstrated that the Convention did not ex* ceed their powers? But the Congress have the power of making bad laws, it seems. The Senate, with the President, he informs us, may make a treaty which shall be disadvantageous to us ; and that, if they be not good men, it will ...not be a good Constitution. I shall ask the worthy member only, if the people at large, and they alone, ought to make laws and treaties? Has any man this in contemplation ? You cannot ex- ercise the powers of government personally yourselves. You must trust to agents. If so, will you dispute giving them the power of acting for you, from an ex- isting possibility that they may abuse it ? As long as it is impossible for you to transact your business in person, if you repose no confidence in delegates, be- cause there is a possibility of their abusing it, you can have no government ; for the power of doing good is inseparable from that of doing some evil.' *Let me pay attention to the observation of the gen- tleman who was last up [Mr.
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