Assertion: majority | /r/CapableOf | consider public officers
Facets:
value: as its passive agents
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The majority has an entire control over the law when it is made and when it is executed; and as it possesses an equal authority over those who are in power and the community at large, it considers public officers as its passive agents, and readily confides the task of serving its designs to their vigilance.