To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (57980 ) 11/20/2002 8:53:47 PM From: Sam Read Replies (1) | Respond to Nadine, you copied the first paragraph of Fed 63 nicely, but why didn't you copy the second paragraph:duty to be responsible to any other government. But his main concern throughout is how to check both the abuse of power and abuse of liberty. He knew how often both the people and the government could be subject to delusion, hence the question and answer that you quoted, which is so typical of him: What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against the tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statues on the next. He is talking here about the government being deluded, and needing a check on their power so that they can get some distance from their lunacy, and (hopefully) recover from it, see it in perspective, and not do something crazy.our own good , not for theirs. Syria, as such, is irrelevant. It just happens to be on the SC right now, and putting it in the way you put it ("How is our foreign policy made more legitimate by having Syria vote for it?") is a sure way to make it sound absurd. It isn't that Syria gives the policy more legitimacy, it is that the SC as a body does, at least in theory.
