John Dewey: “The creation of adequately flexible and responsive political and legal machinery has so far been beyond the wit of man.”

In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.

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.

They persist as emotional cries rather than as reasoned ideas.

Mistakes pile up and consolidate themselves into laws and methods of administration which are more harmful than the consequences which they were originally intended to control.