Thsi goes to the point that I was trying to make in my post 21; we should expect a better protection of the rights of the a minority under a Republic.
Good point. Interestingly, I was just reading about our early days and the first political parties (BTW: political parties were a rather nasty notion to our Founding Fathers, at the first.) Hamilton epitomized the Federalists: strong national government to protect elite and capitalism. Jefferson epitomized the
Democratic Republicans: strong local government to protect the general public.
Think we conservatives of today would have been the "Independent" party!