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Quotes from A Preface to Democratic Theory — Robert A. Dahl

1915–2014 United States

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I concluded also that Madison had more confidence in majorities than I gave him credit for; or more accutely, that he was somewhat less distrustful and hostile to majority rule than I had supposed.

A Preface to Democratic Theory (2006)

If the Madisonian democratic republicans had been able to foresee the later experience with constitutions in democratic countries, including the experience of the United States, would they have made the choices they made in 1787? I very much doubt it.

A Preface to Democratic Theory (2006)

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