The Government, when it asserts that right, seeks not to antagonize a class but simply to defend the right of the whole people as against the irreparable harm and injury that might be done by the attempt by any class to usurp a power that only Government itself has a right to exercise as a protection to all.
Wilson explains that the government's assertion of power is meant to protect the rights of all citizens, not to antagonize any class.
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