[SampleMan]

I don’t like the use of “democracy” as a synonym for “freedom”. It isn’t.

Democracy and tyranny are not mutually exclusive.

Democracy only ensures that the majority gets to be the tyrant.

Individual liberty stands by itself, independent of majority rule.

[John Leland 1789]

All should pay attention to speeches by both Damocrat and Republican politicians over the past 20 years for the vitual ABSENCE of the word "republic," and the ober use of the word, "democracy."

That will pretty much tell the story.

[himno hero]

It depends.
If it is in the north American / English culture the Magna Carta is the basis for its codification and injection into the culture’s infrastructure.

Muslims never experienced the reformation of the church and the birth of Individual rights.... and it is this that has kept them out of modern man’s loop and trapped in the 7th century as barbarians.