Constitution
Views of human nature
Two views of human nature.
One view is that while people can be kind if circumstances allow they will alway put their own interest first.Therefor power must be held in check by power.
The other view is that people are born good and thus may be trusted with power.
The second is the view many once held of monarchy and many today hold of some pols.
The men who wrote our Constitution and the Americans who had just finished fighting King George lll, took the first view
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