When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
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Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
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