montesquieu who was the leading french philosopher of the 18th century, very much red by the founders said that democracy can exist only in small states because you can't build a consensus if you have a large diverse population. that was a very, very important principle with which the founders had to confront when they were drawing up the federal constitution. because montesquieu would not at all be surprised at what happened when tito for example, was removed. removed from yugoslavia. suddenly the serbs and the other ethnic groups are at each other's throats in the yugoslav area. or when the soviet union was removed. suddenly all of the various parts began fighting with one another. he would have said of course. once you remove this authority from the top down, then these various ethnicities, differences will come forward. and they make democracy very difficult because people have to willingly surrender some of their selfish interest. and that's not easy to do. the founders would have been, and they became very pessimistic about the ability of other people who have become democratic.

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