Democrat, What's That?

At no time, at no place, in solemn conventions assembled, through no chosen agents, had the American people officially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy. The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it, except possibly the mention of "We, the people," in the preamble ... When the Constitution was framed no respectable person called himself or herself a democrat. - America in Midpassage [1939], ch. 17 - Mary Ritter Beard [1876-1958] also from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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