Enabling Acts

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    ...for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
    Bible: New Testament, Philippians 2:13.

    In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.
    James Madison (1751–1836)