nicnym on Nostr: “An elective despotism was not the government we fought for” ...
“An elective despotism was not the government we fought for”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0269
“I remark here only that it seems to owe its rise and prevalence chiefly to the confounding of a republic with a democracy, applying to the former reasonings drawn from the nature of the latter”
https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-11-20
Even the pro-statist federalist founders like Madison and Hamilton knew democracy was bad.
As long as you get 51% then you can do whatever you want to 49%
That’s why there was a ton of rules about “voting” back then- which was really more like selecting an executive from a district or state instead of “popular vote”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0269
“I remark here only that it seems to owe its rise and prevalence chiefly to the confounding of a republic with a democracy, applying to the former reasonings drawn from the nature of the latter”
https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-11-20
Even the pro-statist federalist founders like Madison and Hamilton knew democracy was bad.
As long as you get 51% then you can do whatever you want to 49%
That’s why there was a ton of rules about “voting” back then- which was really more like selecting an executive from a district or state instead of “popular vote”