"That liberty, or freedom, consists in having an actual share in
the appointment of those who frame the laws, and who are to be the
guardians of every man's life, property, and peace; for the all of
one man is as dear to him as the all of another, and the poor man
has an equal right, but more need, to have representatives in the
legislature than the rich one. That they who have no voice nor vote
in the electing of representatives do not enjoy liberty, but are
absolutely enslaved to those who have votes, and to their
representatives; for to be enslaved is to have governors whom other
men have set over us, and be subject to laws made by the
representatives of others, without having had representatives of our
own to give consent in our behalf."--BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, in Sparks's
Franklin, ii. 372.