“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.” GovernmentPoliticalWealthLeaderGenerationsIntellectualUnderstoodEuropeFamiliarRevolutionaryRepublicFoundersPerilAccumulationImbalanceSystems Of GovernmentInherited Wealth Book:It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush Source: It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush
