… is from pages 38-39 of the 1981 Liberty Fund edition of Felix Morley‘s 1959 volume, Freedom and Federalism:
It is perhaps too much to say that Madison‘s thinking denied any validity to the conception of a general will. But it was certainly careful to ensure that if there is a general will it shall not at any time or place run roughshod over the individual.


It is perhaps too much to say that Madison‘s thinking denied any validity to the conception of a general will. But it was certainly careful to ensure that if there is a general will it shall not at any time or place run roughshod over the individual.
