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where the average IQ is markedly lower than that in those countries where participatory Government works best.
Do you have any proof of that? I'd love to see it.

As for your second paragraph, that is your opinion. It still does not change the fact that George Washington wasn't sure a republican form of government would work here, making many things of your article irrelevant.

There is a very good question, whether we have not lost the Republican form of Government--whether it is, in fact, still working here? That hardly makes the analysis of one of its greatest advocates irrelevant. Some of us would still like to see it restored to its original intent and function.

And, you know, over 2,000 years after Rome lost her Republican form of Government, wise men still debate its ideas and merits, as very relevant indeed to the ongoing human experience.

As for you query, I am not sure which you want the evidence for, the higher IQs of the lands where popular forms of Government seem to work? Or the lower IQs in much of the third world? Or the relationship between intelligence and intelligent voting? (I assume that you understand and accept the latter.)

Most of the studies that I have seen reported put the average IQs in the Near East in the 80's--with the exception of Turkey and Israel, where they are higher. (They may be in Lebanon, also, I do not have anything handy on that.)

William Flax