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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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A pure democracy, by which i mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. a common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. hence it is, that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths.
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