On the Road to Tyranny: "Imagine a republic in which the lawmakers refused to pass any legislation they had not read or did not understand. Imagine that these lawmakers were so honorable that they refused to burden generations yet unborn with crushing debts just to secure a few comforts for those who had voted them into office. This republic would resemble the one created by the idealists who kicked off the American Revolution. As the aging Benjamin Franklin hobbled out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention of 1789, a woman called to him from the crowd asking what sort of government had been established in America. “A republic,” Franklin replied, “If you can keep it.”
In the 1830s the skeptical French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville toured America, took stock of the American character and offered his opinion that all would be well for America until the Americans realized that they could vote themselves anything."
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