ABSTRACT
Thomas Jefferson viewed elections as remedies, for example, elections are a “mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided.” “The American war is over,” wrote Jefferson’s friend Benjamin Rush in 1787, “but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.” George Washington wrote that the preservation of the “sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people”. Wilson, in 1884, wrote that the original experiment of divided power was ended. The power of the states was so diminished they could no longer check the national government. Power was centralized. Congress became the “predominant and controlling force, the centre and source of all motives and of all regulative power.”
