They believed that the utmost concession that could be safely made to democracy was the power to select suitable men to legislate for the common good, and nothing is more striking in the Constitution than the care with which they sought to remove the powers of legislation from the direct action of the people.
Beck discusses the Founding Fathers' cautious approach to democracy in the legislative process.
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