City of Tyler v. Liberty Utilities (Tall Timbers Sewer) Corp.

*338Michael Massengale, Justice

In defense of the plan of American government that emerged from the 1787 Constitutional Convention, The Federalist No. 57 defended the proposed house of representatives against the charge that "an ambitious sacrifice of the many" would result in the "aggrandizement of the few" by predicting that future legislators naturally could "make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of society."1 Though nothing in the proposed federal constitution expressly enforced this principle, the Founders nevertheless…