Herbert Tuttle Quotes
No error is more common than to confound democracy as an element in national character with democracy as a form of government.… Now the two are not only not identical, but they are not even necessarily coexistent. By the former we understand that spirit in a people which leads them to demand equality among citizens and a substantial control over their own affairs; by the latter, a system in which the people pronounce directly on all the details of government.
At the time Democracy as a form of government meant citizens voting for their own laws—not their representatives. Today we call that “Direct Democracy” as in a New England Town Meeting.
Herbert Tuttle, 1846–1894, Historian & Political Scientist, “French Democracy”. The Atlantic Monthly, May 1872
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