An echo here of the distinction in Aquinas between natural law and human law. The sum total . . . of its effects, when most successful, is to make those elected the true and faithful representatives of those who elected them . . . If the whole community had the same interests . But such is not the case. This leads Calhoun to alter an earlier claim.
Government is a prize.
This requires an extensive bureaucracy. All this makes control of government attractive to the ambitious and avaricious. Government cannot possibly equalize costs and benefits. Its honors and emoluments, however great, can fall to the lot of but a few, compared to the entire number of the community and the multitude who will seek to participate in them. On balance, then, only the former a really burdened by the taxes they pay.