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> # The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class.

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## More from John Acton

1. > Without presuming to decide the purely legal question, on which it seems evident to me from Madison's and Hamilton's papers that the Fathers of the Constitutio…

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2. > There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, P…

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3. > Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest ha…

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