17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:
I understood the intent of AP was to take powers the government is already exercising (unconstitutionally), and merely transfer some of them to the people, as it were.
Isn't this true democracy (if a rather perverse kind)?
Not really- however, no matter what it is, it isn't a Libertarian scheme, as libertarian philosophy holds that those powers are the defining characteristic of goverment; AP doesn't abolish governments, it creates lots of little governments which don't even have to pretend to be democracies. Simon