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To: mwilli20

Sorry, a democracy is simple majority rule and has nothing to do with "bloodlines". A representative government is by definition a Republic. This was intended by the founding fathers as a means to allow the minority to have a real voice in the government.
Read The Federalist Papers
Read the Debates in Congress on the Bill of Rights.


17 posted on 02/01/2005 4:11:34 PM PST by AntiBurr ("Those who cannot remember the past are destined to repeat it" Santayana)
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To: AntiBurr

It is the Democratic Peoples Republic ;-)


19 posted on 02/01/2005 4:55:52 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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