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From: amp@pobox.com Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 22:49:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Removing Tyranny from Democracy (Part II), (fwd)
From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Please be so kind as to detail your top three flaws...
1. In a democracy, 51% of the people can vote to enslave the other 49%
Not in this democracy they don't. In every democracy currently extant there is a bill of rights. The government may not respect it, but that is a flaw of implimentation not theory.
2. In a democracy, you can't have property rights because 51% can capriciously decide to confiscate anyone's property.
See above.
3. A pure democracy is true mob rule - a mob has no concience, or bounds to it's tyranny. Look into the history of ancient Athens.
Since there are no true democracies extant your point is moot. ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|