Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794) was a U.S. Senator from Virginia, a Democratic-Republican, serving from 1789 to 1792. He was a founding father who attended the Second Continental Congress and proposed the resolution for American independence.
To this end we ought to take every precaution to prevent legislators becoming mere office-men; choose them frequently, make them recallable, establish rotation among them, make them ineligible to offices, and give them as small a share as possible in the disposal of them.
We may have, for the first president, and perhaps, one in a century or two afterwards...a great and good man, governed by superior motives; but these are not events to be calculated upon in the present state of human nature.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.
