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Veto Statement for the Arizona Enabling Act (15 Aug 1911) - Taft, William | WIST Quotations
No honest, clear-headed man, however great a lover of popular government, can deny that the unbridled expression of the majority of a community converted hastily into law or action would sometimes make a government tyrannical and cruel. Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the…