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Democracy: a revisionist view. (Politics).
DEMOCRACY never lasts long. It wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide." It is strange to note that this comment was made by John Adams, second President of the United States and a signatory to the Declaration of Independence. His colleagues James Madison and Alexander Hamilton held similar views; there were few professed democrats in the first US Congress.
In the absence of belief in a supreme deity or a royal authority sometimes transcending mere human aspiration, "democracy" has become the global god-term of the past half-century. It is now invoked impartially to scold or inspire by every cub journalist, ...
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