To: afraidfortherepublic
“A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it!”
36 posted on
10/24/2011 9:54:31 AM PDT by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
To: Redleg Duke
“A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it!”
Hence my screen name (just in case you didn't "get it". ;^)
To: Redleg Duke
“A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it!” Ben Franklin was right, and if was the operative word.
Majoritarian democracy is incompatible with ordered liberty, and in our time would result in America being permanently ruled by the political preferences and moral inclinations of New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Chicago.
55 posted on
10/24/2011 10:04:06 AM PDT by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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