They rejected laws, for rejected will we It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.° Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhaust and murders itself! There never was a democracy that ‘did not commit suicide.” democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of 66 The Secret Side of History would do for them what they should do for themselves. of fixed government government based upon the whims of a monarch, the tragic results of which are recorded in the books of the Old Testament. Another system of government the Founding Fathers rejected was a Democracy. To understand why they let them speak for a Democracy, themselves. On June 21, 1788, Alexander Hamilton made a speech in which he stated: Samuel Adams warned: James Madison wrote: