A dominion of this system. Ten score and a bunch of years ago, a pack of wild-eyed upstarts in wigs and women's stockings sat down a scrawled out a charter for a better kind of nation. Generation upon generation of career politicians, self-serving and corrupt men, many of whom have never had to obey the laws they force upon other citizens, have exploited, ignored, or circumvented the Constitution ever since.
Democracy never lasts long.
It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. He is one of the few, wise men among them, to recognize the shortcomings of democracy. Fundamentally, democracy is a spear count - votes are tallied among ten million individuals, and the result is seven million to three. Thus the seven million have their way - not because what they want is right or fair or just by any measure, but because seven million are presumably stronger than three, and therefore the three submit without having recourse to a practical test.