Thomas Jefferson once declared that "democracy is built on the people's distrust of the government." Democracy certainly cannot hope to rely on the goodwill of national state leaders to survive. The people often tend to be lazy, placing their trust in their leaders; this is thinking based on 18th-century feudal ideology which is not in accordance with the spirit of the rule of law in the 21st century. The long way forward for the nation points toward constitutional reform to preserve a great system that will work on behalf of the people. See the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development.