It is representation ingrafted upon democracy.

It has fixed the form by a scale parallel in all cases to the extent of the principle.

What Athens was in miniature America will be in magnitude.

The one was the wonder of the ancient world; the other is becoming the admiration of the present.
It is the easiest of all the forms of government to be understood and the most eligible in practice; and excludes at once the ignorance and insecurity of the hereditary mode, and the inconvenience of the simple democracy.
It is impossible to conceive a system of government capable of acting over such an extent of territory, and such a circle of interests, as is immediately produced by the operation of representation.

France, great and populous as it is, is but a spot in the capaciousness of the system.
It is preferable to simple democracy even in small territories.