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2182. DEMOCRATS, The People and.—

Democrats consider the people as the safest
depository of power in the last resort; they
cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave
in them all the powers to the exercise of
which they are competent.—
To William Short. Washington ed. vii, 391. Ford ed., x, 335.
(M. 1825)