Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on September 17, 2024
… is from page 31 of Gordon Wood’s excellent 2009 volume, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815:
In addition to correcting the deficiencies of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution was intended to restrain the excesses of democracy and protect minority rights from overbearing majorities in state legislatures.
