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    God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

    The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.
    James Madison (1751–1836)