tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27874690252925328532020-07-25T23:43:11.167-07:00Michael Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587563325797192936noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2787469025292532853.post-42810579901451698252020-07-25T21:31:00.001-07:002020-07-25T21:31:21.786-07:00<div data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><p style="margin: 0px;">Hello! I really want to share this quoted text and reference with you:&nbsp;</p></div><h2 data-blogger-escaped-style="text-align: left;"><font color="#494a4c" data-blogger-escaped-style="background-color: #cde4f8; color: #494a4c; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.64px;" face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #cde4f8; font-size: 16.64px;">"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...",</font></h2><p style="margin: 0px;"><font color="#494a4c" data-blogger-escaped-style="background-color: #cde4f8; color: #494a4c; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.64px;" face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #cde4f8; font-size: 16.64px;">"We may define a republic to be ... a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans and claim for their government the honorable title of republic." James Madison, Federalist No. 10, (1787)"</font></p><div><p style="margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div><div><p style="margin: 0px;"><font color="#494a4c" data-blogger-escaped-style="color: #494a4c;"><font data-blogger-escaped-style="background-color: #cde4f8; font-size: 16.64px;" style="background-color: #cde4f8; font-size: 16.64px;">Reference:&nbsp;</font><font data-blogger-escaped-style="font-size: 16.64px;" style="font-size: 16.64px;">https://votesmart.org/public-statement/189323/republic-vs-democracy#.XxLjdWllA0N</font></font></p></div>Michael Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587563325797192936noreply@blogger.com0