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To: frgoff
What is representative government other than the people making the laws by which they agree to be governed? If people decide on a moral issue, then it is perfectly appropriate in a self-governing society for those people to enact that moral issue into law.

You remind me of the saying, "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner."

133 posted on 02/24/2005 9:05:51 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
You remind me of the saying, "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner."

Nice attempt at a red herring. I didn't use the word democracy. I said representative government, didn't I? A good representative government has checks in it to reduce the effect of tyranny of the majority. That being said, there is still nothing wrong with a self-governing people enacting moral issues into law.

146 posted on 02/24/2005 9:20:51 AM PST by frgoff
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