"Whenever there is an interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done, and not less readily by a powerful and interested party than by a powerful and interested prince." - Madison to Jefferson in 1788 The above statement shows that the Founders of our Republic feared parties of the people as much as they did a royal government. Americans today are frustrated. The political choices they are offered give them no real choice at all. For all their talk of "change," neither major pol …