...of government to control each other. Madison's view becomes most obvious in the following quotation: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary....internal controls on government would be necessary" (Madison, 2003, p. 316). This gives us a pointed summary of his position, regarding both the importance...

...Madison wrote in the Federalist Papers that it is necessary to place controls on government because "if men were angels, no government would be necessary....internal controls on government would be necessary." Critics of the market mechanism feel threatened by it, wrote Johan Norberg, not because they think...

...abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary....internal controls on government would be necessary." Ibid. 90. "By [1914, the state] could widely deploy more men, more authority, more resources, and more...

...freedom (Schmidt 2000, 118-21). Thus, Publius has to confess (Hamilton/Madison/Jay 1999, NO 51, 290): "If angels were to govern men, neither external nor...necessary. In framing a government which is to be administrating by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government...

...markets can be both free and fair. James Madison was right when he wrote in Federalist Paper Number 5 1 , "If men were angels, no government would be necessary....external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."13 Why do the sciences of complex systems and human nature predict and demonstrate that...

...end of wisdom. As James Madison observed sagely more than 200 years ago in l-'ederalist No. 51: \\ men were angels, no government would be necessary....internal controls on government would be necessary. Since the power of government in this world is held only by mere women and men, a thoughtful approach...

...of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary....external nor internal controls on government would be necessarv. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty...

...protect it — the rub was in the details. "If men were angels," Madison wrote in The Federalist Papers, "no government would be necessary. If angels were...internal controls on government would be necessary." Yet, the angels remain in heaven and imperfect men must govern themselves. Madison brilliantly summarized...

...constitution." Alexander Hamilton knew' the Beast of Babylon and knew the only sword that would subdue him. "You must first enable the government to control the...and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." George Washington often quipped like John, reflecting John the Revelator's great red dragon. "Government...

...Madison's couplet from Federalist 51 that "essential to the preservation of liberty" is the principle that "you must first enable the government to control the...governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."55 If Madison put things more succinctly in the 1790s it is because by then the Founders saw...