It's been several decades since I read the _Federalist Papers_ -- but it seems to me (if my memory for both content & number is correct) that Nos. 10 & 51 esp. were in effect promises that the Constitution would not lead to democracy (in the sense of the "masses" or "factions" having a loud voice in decision-making).
Carrol ^^^^^^^ CB: And didn't these demi-gods of liberal "democracy" understand "factions" as political parties representing different economic classes, and therefore favor a one party system or system run by one party in particular ? Guess which class' party.
This was too honest. It took their political descendants to realize that the
> deception "freedom and choice" which is two parties (representing one class)
> would make a bourgeois democratic republic more secure for its ruling
> class.
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