...the Framer (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1973), pp. 206-7. In The Federalist No. 51, Madison asked: "But what is government itself, but the greatest of...men were angels, no government would be necessary." 4. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance (New York: Cambridge University Press,...

...particular were deeply mistrustful of human nature. (As James Madison famously wrote, for example, "But what is government itself but the greatest of...men were angels, no government would be necessary.") They knew that if they were to make their democratic experiment last, they had to make Faustian bargains...

...particular were deeply mistrustful of human nature. (As James Madison famously wrote, for example, "But what is government itself but the greatest of...men were angels, no government would be necessary.") They knew that if they were to make their democratic experiment last, they had to make Faustian bargains...

...Law," New Jersey Law Journal 1 19 (1987): 4-5, 22-23 ("As Madison observed in No. 51 of the Federalist: 'What is government itself but the greatest of all...were angels, no government would be necessary'"). 35. See Antonin Scalia, "The Two Faces of Federalism," Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 6 (1982):...

...the fact that we cannot count on our leaders to always be good people. As we read in The Federalist: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary....were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." Many powerful people are not good at all; they are often...

...conflicting and often adversarial forces at work within both the population and within the government. If men were angels, no government would be necessary....were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men...

...literary flourishes in The Federalist y., Madison concisely stated the problem faced by all governments. "If men were angels, no government would be necessary....were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men...

...ratifying the Constitution. In Federalist No. 51, with characteristic elegance and insight, he explained: If men were angels, no government would be necessary....were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls or government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men...

...dreaming me. Turning to my political science roots for a metaphor, James Madison had written this: If men were angels, no government would be necessary....were to govern men, ** neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. Clearly there was a state in which I could partake of both...

...Bauman (see n.12 above). Who Guards the Guardians? International Accountability in Bosnia RICHARD CAPLAN If men were angels, no government would be necessary....were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men...