It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny ...
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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
~ Alexander Hamilton
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