本杰明·富兰克林:
All governments are more or less combinations against people… and as rulers have no more virtue than the ruled… the power of government can only be kept within its constituted bounds by the display of a power equal to itself, the collected sentiment of the people.
— Benjamin Franklin Bache, in a Philadelphia Aurora editorial, 1794
“所有的政府，或多或少，总是反人民的组合......而作为统治者，他们并不比被统治者具备更多的美德......要将政府的权力限制在宪法规定的范围内，只有一个办法，靠另一股和政府同样强大的力量 —— 也就是全体民意的集合。”
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