Democracy
The Founding Fathers of this nation intentionally did not form a Democracy. They knew the risks involved with such a government, they knew Democracy killed Socrates; they read Plato, and they were well acquainted with Aristotle. The latter writes at great length on the tendency of democracy to devolve into tyranny; it is merely the other side o…
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