Seth Paskin
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1,271 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Seth Paskin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the Federal's fifty one's from Madison and and it it's mostly about sort of faction and how government would work.
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But here's the quote.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
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In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this you must first enable the government to control the governed, and, in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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A dependence on the people is no doubt the primary control of the government, but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
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Томі, that's basically the whole point.
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of what they're trying to do is figure out, argue for the claim is that the constitution's going to do that and they're arguing that the constitution is accomplishing that that goal.
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And I think for me again, I see illustrated already the question of whether or not in each of these arguments for the executive or the judiciary or the legislature, if there's sufficient checks on their their power or sufficient control over them.
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So Seth, when you were talking, I thought you were gonna follow uh I was thinking you were just pulling a Brutus.
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I thought you were gonna argue Brutus's.
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Well, he
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wondering.
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Yeah, yeah.
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But you were focusing on the removal from power question, okay, as opposed to that I guess it's that version of having too much power.
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The other point of Brutus was that there should never be this concept of judiciary judging what is constitutional.
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It's judicial the judicial activism objection is what Brutus gives us.
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Yes.
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Yeah, and which was embodied in Marlbury versus Madison later.
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This question of whether or not the Supreme Court really ought to be able to judge constitutionality was a live question for a long time.
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