... officials, as the Anti-Federalists acknowledged, there was an equal need to recognize the possibility that the people will be corrupted by self-interest, and therefore the government must be distant from the people so as not to be corrupted in turn. In a government designed by the Anti-Federalists, which would have been a small republic, a large chance existed for the corruption ... ...

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