The principle of democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is extinct, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality, and when every citizen wants to be equal to those whom he chooses to command him.
— Montesquieu Early Modern

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The Spirit of the Laws, Book VIII, Chapter II: Of the Corruption of the Principle of Democracy

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1748

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