Fox News booed away from covering for occupywallst

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Kasz216 said:

Actually that was part of his writing on a letter as to why they were going to choose a Republic over a Democracy... basically to prevent "Tyranny of the Majority."

Whether to be a Republic or a Democracy was actually quite a point of contention between the founding fathers.

If you need a direct quote mentioning both as different... again i'll use James Madison from the same long essay.

"Hence, it clearly appears, that the same advantage which a republic has over a democracy, in controlling the effects of faction, is enjoyed by a large over a small republic, -- is enjoyed by the Union over the States composing it."

So they were using the term 'democracy' to refer to the direct democracies that existed during the ancient period (since the Ancient Greek states are the only ones described as simply 'democracies')? Again, this all seems to be an issue of semantics. Democracies, in the sense he was refering to, wouldn't even work on a large scale (not to mention that they weren't inclusive states, as only certain men were considered human beings).