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La mayor parte de los americanos creen que los Estados Unidos es una democracia. No lo es. Varios de ellos se sorprenderían de saber que en el momento de la Guerra de la Independencia, la “democracia” denotaba la forma más baja de gobierno y estaba asociada con el desorden civil y la asunción temprana del poder por parte de un dictador. | La mayor parte de los americanos creen que los Estados Unidos es una democracia. No lo es. Varios de ellos se sorprenderían de saber que en el momento de la Guerra de la Independencia, la “democracia” denotaba la forma más baja de gobierno y estaba asociada con el desorden civil y la asunción temprana del poder por parte de un dictador. | ||
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<blockquote>I [...] was always for a Free Republic; not a democracy, which is as arbitrary Tyrannical bloody cruel and intolerable a government as that of Phalaris with his Bull<ref>Phalaris was the ruler of Akragas (now Agrigento) in Sicily, from approximately 570 to 554 <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>. He was a tyrant renonwned for his excessive cruelties, which included roasting his victims alive inside the body of a brazen bull.</ref> is represented to have been. Robespierre is a perfect exemplification of the Character of the first Bell Wether in a Democracy.<ref>Letter from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, July 30, 1807. [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-5199 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-5199]</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>I [...] was always for a Free Republic; not a democracy, which is as arbitrary Tyrannical bloody cruel and intolerable a government as that of Phalaris with his Bull<ref>Phalaris was the ruler of Akragas (now Agrigento) in Sicily, from approximately 570 to 554 <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>. He was a tyrant renonwned for his excessive cruelties, which included roasting his victims alive inside the body of a brazen bull.</ref> is represented to have been. Robespierre is a perfect exemplification of the Character of the first Bell Wether in a Democracy.<ref>Letter from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, July 30, 1807. [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-5199 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-5199]</ref></blockquote> | ||