Original sentence: 10 and elsewhere, James Madison advocates a republic as opposed to a democracy because he feared that the majority would inevitably violate individual rights if it had the power to do so
Edited sentence: 10 and elsewhere, James Madison advocates a plutocratic republic having only the color of democracy over a republic with actual democracy.He feared that, in a real democracy, the majority would not tolerate the great disparities in wealth and power that existed, and he intended to protect those disparities