• Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, self-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.

  Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p

  Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic
  

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1. democracy-direct
2. people-required
3. self-denying
4. perpetuation
5. poverty
6. upright

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Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, self-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race. by : Bernard Bailyn

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