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To: Chad Fairbanks
I don't understand, democracy is a bad thing? I don't get your point. Please explain...
792 posted on 10/20/2003 8:51:09 PM PDT by Madame de Winter
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To: Madame de Winter
Democracy is a bad thing, yes. Because a democracy, by it's very nature, quickly turns into Mobocracy. When it's "Majorty Rule" then individual Rights can be stomped by the majority.

In a constitutional republic, however, the theory is that Individual Rights are not at the mercy of the majority.

Make sense?
798 posted on 10/20/2003 8:54:31 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Francis Scott Key was a One-Hit Wonder)
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