Representative Quotes by Benjamin Franklin

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• Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
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• The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell
• The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by… — Herbert Spencer
• The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
• The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a… — James Madison
• I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.… — Thomas Jefferson

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