As One of the Framers of Our Constitution, Alexander Hamilton

question 44

Multiple Choice

As one of the Framers of our Constitution, Alexander Hamilton was very vocal in his fear of "tyranny of the masses," which he believed could lead to instability in governance. Hamilton's answer to this challenge was

• A) a republican form of government, in which the public chooses leaders who run the government, rather than a direct democracy in which the public rules directly.
• B) to limit the right to vote to a representative number of citizens.
• C) to limit the number of political parties that were allowed to function in the political arena.
• D) a single, unified political party in which the party leaders were actually the elected officials, thereby bringing consistency and continuity to governance.
• E) a return to a monarchy as the form of government.

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