The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Four years later in 1808 he died in Dedham on July 4. Hamilton's Federalists (of which Ames was one) although they too agreed with a Republic advocated a stronger federal government with similar powers to the British example. London: John W.

FiFisher Amesr Ames (April 9 1758 – July 4 1808) was a Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts.