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Drawn from what Immanuel Kant said
democracy Elections, the losers accepting them, and the rules that keep power answerable to voters.
Of these three forms of a state, democracy, in the proper sense of the word, is of necessity despotism, because it establishes an executive power, since all decree regarding—and, if need be, against—any individual who dissents from them.
Where this was said
↗Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay (1795; M. Campbell Smith translation)gutenberg.org
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