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Excerpt from Democracy Examined, or a Conversation Between a Republican and a Moderate Democrat: In Two Chapters
It is not to be disputed, or refuted, that it has been a Democratic party in essence, or name, which has overthrown, or prepared the way for the overthrow of, every Republican form of government set 11 in any independent community, and which, by the way, may e numbered by the hundreds and it may also be confidently asserted that no Republican form of government, once established in such a community, has ever been overthrown without the reign or intervention of ademocratic party, or the arms of a conquering foe. And the reason of it is plain. There is not, and never has been, any word or name, I repeat, other than that Of Democracy, in this or any other language, under which the bad and dangerous elem'ents of society could be brought together and so successfully directed against the principles and bonds Of civilized society; and it is probably the only word or name under which a party has ever gained strength from the outrages and crimes it has committed, and which it generally does until its outrages and crimes become insufferable by any people. But for this word, this name of evil omen and history, there is, there can be no reason given why a Republican government, once established, should not be as stable and as long-lived as that of Monarchy in any enlightened nation.
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