"Democracy will envy all, contend with all, endeavor to pull down all, and when by chance it happens to get the upper hand for a short time, it will be revengeful, bloody and cruel."
John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 16 July, 1814
"Do I want to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away, or 3,000 tyrants one mile away?"
>”The Founders hated democracy and went to great pains to ensure that our new government not take that form.”<
Were there any democracies in the world at the time of our founders. How did the founders come to hate them?
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.”
- - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
The founders feared a “tyranny of the majority”. That’s why we have the. Constitution