The correct answer to this open question is the following.
The words used by Benjamin Martin in the scene where the leaders met to decide how they would confront the English is the following.
Benjamin Martin said: "Would you tell me, please, Mr. Howard, why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a King can."
We are talking about one scene of the movie "The Patriot," starring Mel Gibson.
The founding fathers of the United States debated on the kind of government the new nation needed and after so much discussion, with the addition of the Bill of Rights that are the ten amendments to the United States Constitution, they opted for the division of powers of the federal government under the system of checks and balances.
