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To: upchuck
The Scottish Jurist and Historian Sir Alex Fraser Tyler published a collection of lectures in 1801. He advanced a theory of democracy based on historical observation:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesses from the public treasury. From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury...
Too bad LBJ didn't read Tyler.
30 posted on 09/12/2005 6:42:52 PM PDT by upchuck ("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: upchuck
Too bad LBJ didn't read Tyler.

Obviously George W. Bush didn't read Tyler either. America is turning into a nanny state.

35 posted on 09/12/2005 7:02:41 PM PDT by janetgreen
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To: upchuck
Too bad LBJ didn't read Tyler.

What makes you think he didn't: "From that time on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury..."

44 posted on 09/12/2005 7:48:54 PM PDT by supercat (Don't fix blame--FIX THE PROBLEM.)
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