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How did the first democracy die?
PJ Vogt
James Madison, one of our founders, wrote that had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. And in Athens, unlike in America, the leaders really learned to fear the people. Generals who lost wars, wars that people had voted for, were sometimes executed, often exiled.
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