“I wish for vigor in the government, but I wish that vigorous authority to come from the legitimate source of all authority

"I wish for vigor in the government, but I wish that vigorous authority to come from the legitimate source of all authority - the people. The government ought to possess not only the force, but the mind or sense of the people at large"

Bill Moyers in Report from Philadelphia quoting James Wilson at the Constitutional Convention, Summer, 1787