“ Just as most citizens, who are competent enough to elect, are not competent enough to be elected, so the people, who are sufficiently capable to call others to account for their management, are not suited to manage by themselves.
Public business must proceed, and proceed at a pace that is neither too slow nor too fast. But the people always act too much or too little. ”
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation