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::: Thomas Jefferson certainly had a different understanding. Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to Isaac H. Tiffany on August 26, 1816, which certainly contradicts the understanding of Birchers. With respect to the ancient Greeks, Jefferson wrote:  

::: Thomas Jefferson certainly had a different understanding. Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to Isaac H. Tiffany on August 26, 1816, which certainly contradicts the understanding of Birchers. With respect to the ancient Greeks, Jefferson wrote:  

"They had just ideas of the value of personal liberty, but none at all of the structure of government best calculated to preserve it. They knew no medium between a democracy (the only pure republic, but impracticable beyond the limits of a town) and an abandonment of themselves to an aristocracy or a tyranny independent of the people."  

:::"They had just ideas of the value of personal liberty, but none at all of the structure of government best calculated to preserve it. They knew no medium between a democracy (the only pure republic, but impracticable beyond the limits of a town) and an abandonment of themselves to an aristocracy or a tyranny independent of the people."  

Jefferson then also pointed out that:  

Jefferson then also pointed out that:  

"It seems not to have occurred that where the citizens cannot meet to transact their business in person, they alone have the right to chuse the agents who shall transact it; and that, in this way, a republican, or popular government, of the 2d grade of purity, may be exercised over any extent of country. The full experiment of a government democratical, but representative, was and is still reserved for us."

:::"It seems not to have occurred that where the citizens cannot meet to transact their business in person, they alone have the right to chuse the agents who shall transact it; and that, in this way, a republican, or popular government, of the 2d grade of purity, may be exercised over any extent of country. The full experiment of a government democratical, but representative, was and is still reserved for us." [[User:Ernie1241|Ernie1241]] ([[User talk:Ernie1241|talk]]) 15:07, July 24, 2021 (EDT)ernie1241[[User:Ernie1241|Ernie1241]] ([[User talk:Ernie1241|talk]]) 15:07, July 24, 2021 (EDT)

==DEMOCRACY vs REPUBLIC==

==DEMOCRACY vs REPUBLIC==