"The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen."

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That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated & the exercise of the legislature, executive, and judiciary authorities, is vested in select persons, chosen really and not nominally by the people, will in my opinion be most likely to be happy, regular and durable.

— Alexander Hamilton