[weikel]

Tyler and Toqueville both quickly proved that popular government doesn't work( It has in Switzerland maybe they have a genetic predisposition not to vote themselves things which aren't theirs but it has never worked anywhere else for an appreciable amount of time). Popular governments devolve to the majority robbing the minority, endless multiplication of laws and generally end with a socialist dictatorship.

[William McKinley]

Tocqueville will be my next excerpt. Then I might backtrack a bit to Calhoun.

[KC Burke]

Cooper said:

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny."

-- James Fenimore Cooper - "The American Democrat" (1838)