...check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. 38 Social choice theorists, who study how individual choices are aggregated irto group preferences,...

...was a democracy that did not commit suicide." James Madison (the father of the Constitution) said, "...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...in their lives as they have been violent in their death." The word "democracy" cannot be found mentioned in the Constitution or in the Declaration of...

...Citing historical instances of abuses by democracies, Madison wrote: "Hence it is that such [direct] democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...personal security or the rights of property; and have generally been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."47 They understood...

...Such democracies [as the Greek and Roman] have ever been found incompatible with personal security of the rights of property; and have in general been as...in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths.10 But if, at the time of writing the Constitution, the Americans were wary of the power of...

...in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction . . . Hence it is that democracies have been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have...ever been found incompatible with personal security . . . and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. A...

...explained the tumultuous experiences of democracies in antiquity. "Hence it is that such democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property," Madison explained, "and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their...

...cleverly highlighted in Federalist 10. They are "spectacles of turbulence and contention," and have been "as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."46 Homogeneous local communities that exist without meaningful constitutional restraints, Madison...

...laws that otherwise govern the life and destiny of other nations. James Madison insisted that while "democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been 1 State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003. 1 I use the term myth as Richard Slotkin does when...

...check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...lives, as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of Government, have erroneously supposed, that...

...check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence...their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that...