... emulation of nations proceeds from their division. A cluster of states, like a company of men, find the exercise of their reason, and the test of their virtues, in the affairs they transact, upon ... corrupted, the price of their prostitutions, and the standard of theiropinions on the subject of good and of evil. Under this influence, they would enter, if not restrained by the laws of civil ... of redress. Neither the ascendancy of the multitude, nor that of the tyrant, will secure the administration of justice; neither the license of mere tumult, nor the calm of dejection and servitude,...