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To: Entelechy
As one the Founders pointed out (perhaps someone can remind me which one), there has never been a Democracy that did not destroy itself.

"Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
James Madison, Federalist No. 10, (1787)

46 posted on 01/21/2002 2:14:54 PM PST by philman_36
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To: philman_36
Thanks!

The best point is that "democracies . . . have ever been found incompatible with . . . the rights of property"

Never allow others to vote on the extent of your rights.

48 posted on 01/21/2002 2:23:36 PM PST by Entelechy
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