This form of government is in direct contrast from a pure democracy in which all members of a society directly participate in making laws. ... I like this quote from Madison about his view of a democracy, "democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." ...

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Margaret Fuller was quoted as saying that,It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature?... Even when his writing style came up wanting, Fennimore's vision never wavered,The literature of the United States is a subject of the highest interest to the civilized world, for when it does begin to be felt, it will be felt with a force, a directness, and a common sense in its application, that has never yet been known (462).? ...

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