Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power... troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe... they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government.

It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush (ed. Macmillan, 2007) - ISBN: 9781429917025