In the second
place, it has, on another occasion, been shown that the federal
legislature will not only be restrained by its dependence on its people,
as other legislative bodies are, but that it will be, moreover, watched
and controlled by the several collateral legislatures, which other
legislative bodies are not. And in the third place, no comparison can be
made between the means that will be possessed by the more permanent
branches of the federal government for seducing, if they should be
disposed to seduce, the House of Representatives from their duty to the
people, and the means of influence over the popular branch possessed by
the other branches of the government above cited. With less power,
therefore, to abuse, the federal representatives can be less tempted on
one side, and will be doubly watched on the other.
PUBLIUS
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FEDERALIST No. 53
The Same Subject Continued (The House of Representatives)
For the Independent Journal.
Saturday, February 9, 1788.
MADISON
To the People of the State of New York:
I SHALL here, perhaps, be reminded of a current observation, "that where
annual elections end, tyranny begins.
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