Laws, not Confidence

“It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights; that confidence is every where [sic] the parent of despotism; […] our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no farther, our confidence may go; […] In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”