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John Adams condemned democracy as “arbitrary, tyrannical, bloody, cruel, and intolerable a government…. Robespierre [a driving force behind the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution] is a perfect exemplification of the character of the first bellwether in a democracy.” Edmund Randolph warned against the “fury of democracy” at the Constitutional Convention, while Alexander Hamilton called “democracy” “our real disease” and feared that a small country could not sufficiently dilute its “poison.”
“The people of this country were not driven to take up arms,” Sam Adams declared, “they did it voluntarily in defence of their liberty. They properly considered themselves as called by GOD, and warranted by HIM, to encounter every hazard in the common cause of Man.” read more about the “radicals” during America’s revolution: