"As touching reasons it may be pleaded for the Roman method that they are most fit to have charge of a thing who least desire to pervert it to their own ends. And doubtless if we examine the aims which the nobles and the commons respectively set before them we shall find in the former a great desire to dominate in the latter merely a desire not to be dominated over and hence a greater attachment to freedom since they have less to gain than the others by destroying it. Wherefore when the commons are put forward as the defenders of liberty they may be expected to take better care of it and as they have no desire to tamper with it themselves to be less apt to suffer others to do so."