Posted on 06/07/2008 8:38:32 PM PDT by Flavius
the Electoral College
The necessity and merits of the Electoral College is best illustrated by USA Today Newspaper County by County Voting Map for 2000 and 2004.
People who would abandon America’s Republic in favor of a Democracy wish to discard the Electoral College. Only by America becoming a Democracy can America become a Socialist nation. A nation cannot move from a Republic to Socialism without first becoming a Democracy.
It should be clear to all but the most obtuse among us that a politician promoting robbing Peter to pay Paul is not expecting any serious objections from Paul.
The reason that not a single utterance of the dreaded word “democracy” appears in the Constitution is not by accident but rather by careful consideration.
Founders' Quotes for thought
“It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience had proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.” Alexander Hamilton June 21, 1788
“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.” British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli -1850
“The adoption of Democracy as a form of Government by all European nations is fatal to good Government, to liberty, to law and order, to respect for authority, and to religion, and must eventually produce a state of chaos from which a new world tyranny will arise.” Duke of Northumberland 1931
“I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.” Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”Agnes Repplier
“A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” H.L. Mencken
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” C.S. Lewis
bkmk
Not too sure - Prohibition - wasn’t that added to the Constitution then repealed by a vote of the States? Utah being the last one ....
CURAHEE!
From the 101st...(Chicken Men)
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