Governments & Evil
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary." James Madison: Federalist 51: Government has always been considered by many to be a necessary evil. Because of the natural tendency of human beings towards misdeed and the fallibility of our nature, government exists as an attempt to manage and direct its subjects toward acceptable and productive behavior. Unfortunately, the government is run by people just as fallible or corruptible (if not more so) than that of the governed, which is why you check power and put a leash on the powerful. The quote above reflects that fallibility of humanity and the hypothetical infallibility of the divine. Such propensity towards mistakes and corruption is why the founding fathers tried to design a system that contained, controlled, and restricted to an extent the power of the powerful. Unfortunate...