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James Madison

“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.”

James Madison, Federalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51
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Federalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51 Federalist Papers Nos. 10 and 51 by James Madison
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