The idea that absolute economic freedom would be conducive to justice and fairness, not to corruption, might work in the world of fiction, but it has no relationship to the real world. Recognizing this, and protecting against it, was one of the aims of the Founders. Every government tends toward corruption abetted by self-interest. Protection was to be found, not in admonitions or trust, but in strict oversight of government by the people. It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights.
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism.
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power. Throughout the history of the world, men have struggled and died to win freedom from the corruptions of power. In this country, their struggles resulted in a form of government that guaranteed to all the blessings of liberty. The Founding Fathers determined that the key to securing this liberty was self-government, not an economic system.