He said, a republic if we can keep it. You might wonder whether our forefathers ever mentioned democracy, and of course they did. In federalist number 10, James Madison wrote that pure democracies were spectacles of turbulence and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property. and have in general been short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. So in other words, James Madison did talk about democracy, and he talked about it negatively. (01:59–02:11)
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Asserts that James Madison criticized pure democracies as unstable and incompatible with personal security and property rights.
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