American Creation by historian Joseph Ellis

In those days the word “democracy” had the connotation of mob rule, but “representative” bodies had sprung up at local and state levels, some of them based on a plan John Adams had proposed. It was regarded as obvious, a judgment apparently sanctioned by history, that a republic; i.e., a state with a representative government, could ... ................
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