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Subject: Re: Relevant text - Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:46:44 -0500
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:46:44 -0500
From: Christopher G Caruso <ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu>
Message-Id: <199602201839.NAA00566@mail2.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: Relevant text
To: orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
Sender: owner-orgonomy@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
true paranoia..reads wrote:
>
> >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
I agree that the USA is a democracy in name only. However, we don't
suffer from too much democracy, we suffer from far far too little of it.
--
Chris Caruso Check out: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ccaruso/
ccaruso@sas.upenn.edu http://www.igc.org/fair/
Philadelphia, PA USA http://www.mcs.com/~jdav/league.html
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