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Subject: Re: Relevant text - Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:29:35 -0500
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 21:29:35 -0500
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
From: "true paranoia..reads" <orgone@shore.net>
Subject: Re: Relevant text
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Chris Caruso wrote;
- snip -
>Since there is no way to guarantee a group of 100% rational, permanently
>de-armored decision-makers, we must conclude that democracy is still the
>most rational way to make decisions, warts and all.
>
>
Hi Chris,
I just wanted to point out a common misconception. The United States of
America is not a democracy. The United States of America is a constitutional
republic. If it wasn't, all our rights would have been gone long ago.
Freedom of speech and press is guaranteed by an amendment (the first) that
requires far more than a majority to change.
A lynch mob can be considered a democracy.
- Dave Huisken
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