I think that we ought to have obviated it by deciding that a whole year should always be allowed to elapse between the bringing in of a bill and the final passing of it.

It should afterward be discussed and put to the vote without the possibility of making any alteration in it; and if the circumstances of the case required a more speedy decision, the question should not be decided by a simple majority, but by a majority of at least two-thirds of both houses." Public Officers Under The Control Of The Democracy In America Simple exterior of the American public officers--No official costume--All public officers are remunerated--Political consequences of this system--No public career exists in America--Result of this.
Public officers in the United States are commingled with the crowd of citizens; they have neither palaces, nor guards, nor ceremonial costumes.

This simple exterior of the persons in authority is connected not only with the peculiarities of the American character, but with the fundamental principles of that society.

In the estimation of the democracy a government is not a benefit, but a necessary evil.

A certain degree of power must be granted to public officers, for they would be of no use without it.