Groups, being nothing more than a number of individuals can, in themselves, possess no rights other than those which are possessed and exercised individually by each member. A group may hove interests but those interests do not assume the moral legitimacy of rights. Government is force. No matter how benign or dictatorial, behind every law or regulation or act there is a gun. The authors of the United States Constitution were fully aware of this fact.
Democracy is the antithesis of the natural rights of man.
This last construct is such an obvious falsehood that it can carry only one meaning the hatred of reason. Th e exercise of democracy reduces men to mere numbers, and the faction or gang which gathers the greater number of men to its fleeting cause wields the government gun against the minority. From this view of the subject, it may be concluded, that a pure Democracy, by which I mean a society, consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. It is probable, t hat the choice will always fall upon a man of experienced abilities and fidelity. In all human probability, no better method of election could have been devised.