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- "Remember: democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." — John Quincy Adams
- The Federalist Papers
- "The immediate election should be made by ... a small number of persons, selected by their fellow-citizens from the general mass. [These] will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to such complicated [tasks]." Alexander Hamilton