Ideally, he believed, one wise and benevolent man should rule. Yet, practically, he recognized the ease with which a king could be corrupted into tyranny. Then he shared James Madison's preference not only for a republic but for a large republic. The Federalist , No. 10. The basic assumption, so well expressed by Madison, is that competition among interests will produce balance, with all the interests regulating each other .
Consent is no mere summation of all the individual interests in society.
Instead it is something people grant independently of their specific interests as a means of maintaining the right to pursue them. Group interests are contrary to the public interest . Interests would have to go through a representative assembly and be publicized as well as balanced against all other interests. Competition would give representatives an opportunity to make decisions independent of each interest. Sovereign nation whose chief of state is not a monarch, usually governed by representatives of a widely based electorate.