Trump v. Slaughter · ¶108

Second, these experts had to be insulated from political control. As Wilson put it, the Nation’s traditional commitment to “popular sovereignty” entrusted too much to a “selfish, ignorant, timid, stubborn, or foolish” people. Wilson, Study of Administration 207–208. And letting the public anywhere near the new bureaucracies would amount to letting “a rustic handl[e] delicate machinery.” Id., at 215; see also W. Wilson, Shorthand Diary, in 1 Papers of Woodrow Wilson 143 (A. Link ed. 1966) (“[U]niversal suffrage is at the foundation of every evil in this country”); cf. Goodnow 85.

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