Quote#Politics & Power
If a democracy is a government by the people, and if a republic is a…
Quote byAnna Howard Shaw · 1847–1919
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Suffrage for Women" (August 25, 1909).
English (original)
If a democracy is a government by the people, and if a republic is a representative democracy, then there is no such thing in our country except in the four states where both men and women elect their representatives. In all the other states government is by an aristocracy of sex, for there can be neither republic nor democracy where one fraction of the people governs another fraction.
— Anna Howard Shaw
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