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enough power  Obama-socialism Joker-thumb-200x292.jpg Given that
poorer citizens always outnumber the rich, the classic political
philosophers held that government based on majority rule was
untenable. They were of the view that it would lead to organized
theft from the wealthy by the democratic masses. Thus Aristotle
warned in The Politics, for example: “If the majority
distributes among itself the things of a minority, it is evident
that it will destroy the city.” The Founders of the United
States were deep students of politics and history, and they
shared Aristotle’s concern. Up through their time, history had
shown all known democracies to be “incompatible with personal
security or the rights of property.” James Madison and others
held that the “first object of government” was to protect the
rights of property. Numerous provisions of the Constitution and
Bill of Rights were incorporated to protect the property rights
of citizens from the power o