<bq author="Thomas Jefferson" href="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/07/hbc-90005293" source="Harper's" caption="The Risk of Too Much Confidence in Elected Government">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.</bq>