【作者】汉米尔顿.A

【内容提要】

In direct democracies, "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been... as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of Government have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.

【关键词】 Direct democracy; Protestant ethic; the Representative; Calvinist representation