"The great desideratum in Government is so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society." --James Madison, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1787
No particular reason to single out this quote above any other. I just love that word desideratum. now there is a 6 bit word if ever I saw one. Just had to look it up and here's what I found:
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de·sid·er·a·tum (d-sd-rtm, -rä-)
n. pl. de·sid·er·a·ta (-t)
Something considered necessary or highly desirable: "The point is not that the artist has 'penetrated the character' of his sitter, that commonplace desideratum of portraiture" (Robert Hughes).
[Latin dsdertum, from neuter past participle of dsderre, to desire; see desire.]
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