John Dewey: “Since they hampered the free play of initiative and commercial activity, they were artificial and enslaving.”

But in this respect he does not differ from those explicitly designated public officials who have also been known to betray the interest committed to them instead of faithfully representing it.

Nor can the liberating and confirming results of public action be construed to yield a wholesale idealization of states in contrast with other associations.

The clear consciousness of a communal life, in all its implications, constitutes the idea of democracy.

In this distinction we find the germ of the distinction between the private and the public.