Assertion: democracy | /r/SimilarTo | direct democracy
Facets:
value: without the protection of a constitution
type: OTHER
value: in their time
type: TEMPORAL
value: specifically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The Founding Fathers of the United States rarely praised and often criticised democracy, which in their time tended to specifically mean direct democracy, often without the protection of a constitution enshrining basic rights; James Madison argued, especially in The Federalist No. 10, that what distinguished a direct democracy from a republic was that the former became weaker as it got larger and suffered more violently from the effects of faction, whereas a republic could get stronger as it got larger and combats faction by its very structure.