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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Designing rule of people by people, the speaker argues, poses a double task. Authority must be strong enough to keep the governed in order, yet it must also be bound so that it restrains itself. Power is only safe when it can check both the public and its own holders.
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