Retaining, then, democracy as the ground, and rejecting the corrupt systems of monarchy and aristocracy, the representative system naturally presents itself; remedying at once the defects of the simple democracy as to form, and the incapacity of the other two with respect to knowledge.
In "Rights of Man," Paine advocates for the representative system as a superior form of government, combining the strengths of democracy while overcoming its limitations and those of monarchy and aristocracy.
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