Simon Bolivar

1."No matter what citizen occupies this office, he will be aided by the
Constitution, and therein being authorized to do good, he can do no harm, because his ministers
will cooperate with him only insofar as he abides by the law. If he attempts to infringe upon the
law, his own ministers will desert him, thereby isolating him from the Republic, and they will
even bring charges against him in the Senate"
-The citizens cannot do anything wrong because they are abiding by the law by putting who they think is responsible into office, so they deserve the freedom to do this.
2. "This weakness can only be corrected by a strongly
rooted force. It should be strongly proportioned to meet the resistance which the executive must
expect from the legislature, from the judiciary, and from the people of a republic. Unless the
executive has easy access to all the administrative resources, fixed by a just distribution of
powers, he inevitably becomes a nonentity or abuses his authority."
-The weaknesses that the people and the government have can be fixed with a democracy, while a radical monarch would ruin things.
3. "Therefore, let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be
drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own
tenuity."
-The entire system of government, not only monarchy but democracy too, must be re structured so that it works. Until then, the Latin peoples must be free in order to prevent an even worse decay.
4. "Precisely because no form of government is so weak as the democratic, its framework
must be firmer, and its institutions must be studied to determine their degree of stability...unless
this is done, we will have to reckon with an ungovernable, tumultuous, and anarchic society, not
with a social order where happiness, peace, and justice prevail."
-The government must work for the people in order for both the economy and everything else to work properly.