What Thomas Paine thinks about democracy

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Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809), born in Norfolk, England; author of Common Sense, a central text behind the call for American independence, and Rights of Man.

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1. c. 1792

   Our readingRepresentative democracy can govern any size of territory better than hereditary rule

   government

   Their wordsBy ingrafting representation upon democracy, we arrive at a system of government capable of embracing and confederating all the various interests and every extent of territory and population; and that also with advantages as much superior to hereditary government, as the republic of letters is to hereditary literature.

   ↗Rights of Man (1791-1792)gutenberg.org All 22 from this book