deralists believed that an elite was better suited to administer government and dispense justice, but justice was always seen as a matter of balancing the inherent rights of the individual as expressed by Locke and Rousseau, among others, and the requirements of society under the social contract. The concept of justice that drove the Framers made it necessary that both rights and responsibilities be spelled out clearly in the documents and institutions of society and that the means for deciding differences of viewpoint also be clearly delineated. The power structure that the Framers developed was one that was balanced, and this balance in itself indicated institutional methods for weighing differences and for finding a median course. The conception of liberty and the conception of justice are fused, upholding the belief that freedom should not be curtailed except when absolutely necessary for the greater good,
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