[The framers of the Constitution] "intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.”. (Fisher Ames)

[The framers of the Constitution] "intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.”.

Fisher Ames

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