The Democratic Experiment
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The Democratic Experiment
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.049

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Abstract

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, democracy was a dirty word to most Enlightenment-schooled politicians and philosophers, especially in the United States. The word appears in no document put out by the experimental U.S. government at the time. Some historians have argued that the Constitution was designed specifically to avoid democracy and its dreaded offshoot—“faction,” or parties.

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