Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, — Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
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Under a democratical government, the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

— Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I
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