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Monday, March 17, 2003 At no time, at no place, in solemn convention 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.
-- Charles Austin Beard and Mary Ritter Beard,
America in Midpassage [1939]
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