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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

Elbridge Gerry
America, People, Evil
Constitutional Convention, May 31, 1787.
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.