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To: stuartcr

Greek cities were quite small. Generally not more than a few tens of thousands of people. On such a small scale, direct democracy can work.

Trying to adopt such a model for anything much bigger than that is a bad idea.

7 posted on 02/28/2005 12:03:54 PM PST by Modernman ("Normally, I don't listen to women, or doctors." - Captain Hero)

To: Modernman

Greek cities were quite small. Generally not more than a few tens of thousands of people. On such a small scale, direct democracy can work.

Even on a 'small scale' they will always evolve into a dictatorship of the majority.

BTW. The correct definition of the United States is a Constitutional Republic employing a Representative form of Government.

18 posted on 02/28/2005 12:21:26 PM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)

To: Modernman

Trying to adopt such a model for anything much bigger than that is a bad idea.

Not only a bad idea, but literally impossible.

How do you scale a 30,000 to40,000 population to one 10,000 that size?

Pure democracy works ideally as a tribal form of government. Which we ain't.

39 posted on 02/28/2005 1:02:24 PM PST by Publius6961 (The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)

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