More than 200 years ago, James Madison posed a powerful and prescient rhetorical question: “What is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?”
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” Madison continues. “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”
Amid the recent whirlwind of a record number of “ethics waivers,” accusations of unprecedented conflicts of interest and lawsuits charging the president with constitutional violations, no one is calling the current administration angelic.
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