...of the work of the Constitutional Convention. Writing in The Federalist, Madison said : Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretical politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed...

...' should have as little to do as may be with the government.' ' Pure democracies,' wrote Madison, ' have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention,...lives as they have been violent in their deaths.' 1 America had shaken off the yoke against which she had made such vehement protest in the Declaration...

...following description of the •dangers of democracy. He said : "Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention;...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that...

...under the form of the law, it banished Aristides and murdered Socrates. "Democracies," wrote Madison, "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention,...with personal security, or the rights of property." The form of government to be adopted was the subject of the gravest concern in the constitutional convention....

...majority over a minority, which he characterizes as a dangerous form of despotism, and says, "democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention...with personal security or the rights of property." From first to last the articles in the Federalist criticise and denounce a democracy and speak of the...

...more consonant to public good than if pronounced by the people themselves, convened for the purpose." of turbulence and contention ; have ever been found...with personal security or the rights of property." Arizona proposes to pronounce the "public voice" through the people themselves, and has arranged 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;...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. . . . A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens...

...and administer the government in person, have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have been found incompatible with personal security or...lives as they have been violent in their deaths." In the debates in the Convention, Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts said: "The evils we experience flow...

...had seen these democracies, one after another, fail. Alexander Hamilton said: "Such democracies have been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have...lives as they have been violent in their deaths." For centuries a democracy had been regarded by the statesmen of the world as nothing more than a beautiful...

...individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence. Their conditions have ever been found incompatible with personal security...or the rights of property, and have in general been short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretical politicians who have patronized...