We see more to admire, and less to condemn, in that great, extraordinary people, than in anything which history affords.
Mr.Burke is so little acquainted with constituent principles of government, that he confounds democracy and representation together.
Representation was a thing unknown in the ancient democracies.

In those the mass of the people met and enacted laws (grammatically speaking) in the first person.

Simple democracy was no other than the common hall of the ancients.

It signifies the form, as well as the public principle of the government.

As those democracies increased in population, and the territory extended, the simple democratical form became unwieldy and impracticable; and as the system of representation was not known, the consequence was, they either degenerated convulsively into monarchies, or became absorbed into such as then existed.