John Dewey: “History shows that, in the main, persons have ruled because of some prerogative and conspicuous place which was…”

There was no logic which rendered necessary the appeal to the individual as an independent and isolated being.

The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.

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

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