It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. - Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton: "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."

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Ancient	Character	Deformity	Deliberated
Democracies	Democracy	Experience	False
Feature	Figure	Good	Government
Most	Observed	People	Perfect
Position	Possessed	Practicable	Proved
Pure	Themselves	Tyranny	Very

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