"A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace."
-- James Madison
(1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Source: The Federalist No. 46.
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Exactly correct. Hence, we have a Democratic Republic.
Look it up.
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