Yes really, it was considered a failure despite those well-documented centuries.
“Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Yes really, it was considered a failure despite those well-documented centuries.
— James Madison, Federalist Papers 10 & 51