Ratification of the Constitution Indexes | Index to Volumes 8–10: Ratification of the Constitution by the States: Virginia | H | Human Nature
George Washington to Edmund Randolph, Mount Vernon, 8 January [Ratification by the States 8:286]+
Richard Henry Lee to John Lamb, Chantilly, 27 June [Ratification by the States 9:826]
Debates [Ratification by the States 9:1092]
Debates [Ratification by the States 9:1119]
– framers of Constitution give dignity to [1 reference]
– indispensable rights of [1 reference]
– laws necessary for general public [1 reference]
– restraint necessary for those in power [1 reference]
– power corrupts [10 references]
– age makes people cautious [1 reference]
– mankind abuses system under guise of helping [1 reference]
– perversity of [1 reference]
– weakness of threatens all governments [1 reference]
– rights need to be protected against [1 reference]
– few will not protect many [1 reference]
– fallibility of [10 references]
– diversity of opinion of [2 references]
– governed by interest [8 references]
– religion as an ineffective constraint upon [1 reference]
– tyranny of majority [1 reference]
– does not necessarily become corrupted when in power [1 reference]
– not sufficiently wary of small problems [1 reference]
– levity and fickleness are foibles of [1 reference]
– love of power [8 references]
– passions [2 references]
– imbecility of [2 references]
– frailty of [3 references]
– whether it is suited to liberty [1 reference]
– inconstant is mind of man [1 reference]
– depravity of [3 references]
– prone to domination [1 reference]
– men are not by nature tyrants [1 reference]
– slave owners a disgrace to [1 reference]
– cannot exist without assistance of government [1 reference]
– effort to destroy democracy is a disease of [1 reference]
– cannot be moderate in politics and succeed [1 reference]
– excessive political jealousy is degrading to [1 reference]
– people do not contribute money voluntarily [2 references]
– self-preservation is primary maxim of [1 reference]
– man is capable of governing himself [1 reference]
– man is unable to govern himself [1 reference]
– always some people disturbing peace of others [1 reference]
– faction and turbulence is natural to [1 reference]
– institutions of man are flawed [1 reference]
– bill of rights is dear to [1 reference]
– all mankind act on best motives [1 reference]
– corruptibility of [1 reference]
– too much suspicion is better than none [1 reference]
– officeholders must be checked [1 reference]
– virtue of man is not a secure foundation for liberty [1 reference]
– man would not try to hurt community at large [1 reference]
– honesty of [1 reference]
– men will never be satisfied with their happiness [1 reference]
– never changes [1 reference]
– even greatest men err [1 reference]
– man robs and massacres other men [1 reference]