If the Legislature can disfranchise at pleasure, it may soon confine all the votes to a small number of partisans, and establish an aristocracy or an oligarchy; if it may banish at discretion, without hearing or trial, no man can be safe.
Alexander warns about the dangers of legislative power potentially leading to tyranny.
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Gerrit Smith was a noble example of the champions of freedom.
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