"We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments."
— Democracy

January 1, 1970

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Alexander Hamilton, in debates of the Federal Convention (26 June 1787), as published in The Works of Alexander Hamilton (1904) edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, Vol. I: Speeches in the Federal Convention