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The Constitution stops democracy

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 9, 2015November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories Constitution, democracyTags Horatio Seymour

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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