1. When change of rulers happens to a state 'tis but a change of name for the poor. Phaedrus: Fables (c. 25BC)

2. Direct Democracy

3. The less government, the better, the fewer laws, and the less confided power. Emerson

5. Referendums

6. Nearly all great men are bad men. Power is poison.... The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern; every class is unfit to govern. Lord Acton

9. Referendums Arguments for and against