The authors of The Federalist Papers, that great series of essays defending the Constitution of the United States, set out to convince the public that democracy, at least in its original, ancient Athenian form, was not only…
- James Grant
- The Atlantic
Their preferred system of government was a republic, based on the principle of representation.
Even some of the most radical Enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century—those who supported universal suffrage, the…
Direct democracy, they…