The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country,

popularity at the expense of the public good.

A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region.

A man must be far gone in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt that, if these States should either be wholly disunited, or only united in partial confederacies, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown would have frequent and violent contests with each other. To presume a want of motives for such contests as an argument against

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything

Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves, convened for the purpose. On

in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents.

of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.

of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.