America Must Become a Democracy - The Atlantic
The Atlantic The Founders Were Wrong About Democracy The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing. February 15, 2021 Getty / The Atlantic If there was one idea shared by just about every author of the Constitution, it was the one articulated by James Madison at the convention on June 26, 1787. The mass of the people would be susceptible to “fickleness and passion,” he warned. They would suffer from “want of information as to their true interest.” Those who must “labour under all ...
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