Quote of the day..

"It is a first principle in political science that wherever the rights of property are secured, an aristocracy will grow out of it. Elective governments also necessarily become aristocratic because the rulers, being few, can and will draw emoluments for themselves from the many. The governments of America will become aristocracies. They are so already."

John Francis Mercer, August 14, 1787, as quoted by James Madison in his notes from the Constitutional Convention