Politicians should be dependent on the people

Freedom requires the politicians “to be dependent on the people alone,” (Federalist Paper No. 52, ¶2).

When politicians are dependent on political parties, which are controlled by “a handful of tyrannical nobles,” government becomes the servant of the billionaire class, (Federalist Paper No. 39, ¶4).

Lately, the state has laid claim to having the authority to control every aspect of an individual’s life. On any trumped-up pretext, the state has assumed the power to place the people under house arrest, to close the church doors, to censure speech, to rob people of their livelihood, to mandate a...