Michael Anton reviewd Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen at First Things.
"It is true, yet ultimately no excuse, to observe that tyranny of the majority had been the most common destroyer of republics since ancient times. For tyranny of a minority, though less common, had proved no less dangerous and had felled the founders’ ur-example, Republican Rome."
See American State Papers in Great Books of the Western World (first edition, 52 Vol., 1952) volume 43, (second edition, 60 Vol., 1990) volume 40.
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