[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention… intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often… oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.
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