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To: RipSawyer

Our Founders considered the word "democracy" to be a negative. They intended that we have a Representative government and only a small minority of the population was allowed to vote. In the southern states this meant less than 5% of the people.


60 posted on 01/30/2006 12:25:29 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

Our Founders considered the word "democracy" to be a negative. They intended that we have a Representative government and only a small minority of the population was allowed to vote. In the southern states this meant less than 5% of the people.>>>>>>>>>>>>

I am all for going back to this system, even including not allowing women to vote!


81 posted on 01/30/2006 5:37:43 PM PST by RipSawyer (Acceptance of irrational thinking is expanding exponentiallly.)
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