The Founding Fathers: An Age of Realism

The Founding Fathers: An Age of Realism By Richard Hofstadter Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our ... democracy,” and that the great danger lay in the “democratic parts of our constitutions”; Elbridge Gerry, speaking of democracy as “the worst of all political evils”; Roger Sherman, ... ................
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