![[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger. He used England of course as the model and said suppose that in England everyone had the free right to vote; the poor, the propertyless - who are the great majority - would use their voting power to take away the rights of property owners to carry out what we would call land reform.](/assets/img/quote-photos/james-madison-pointed-out-in-the-discussion-of-the-constitutional-debates-the.jpg)
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