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To: frogjerk
Do you mean in a "free" society people decide and vote on what laws should be appropriate and just?

Nope.

In a "free society", government gets involved when another person's rights are being violated.

The model you suggest is three wolves and a sheep deciding (and voting !) on what's for dinner.

205 posted on 05/19/2005 12:52:28 PM PDT by jimt
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To: jimt; frogjerk

that's democracy for you.

a free republican state would be a heavily-armed sheep politely disagreeing with the consensus vote.

the Founders deliberately shunned "democracy" in favor of republicanism.


217 posted on 05/19/2005 12:57:11 PM PDT by King Prout (blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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To: jimt
In a "free society", government gets involved when another person's rights are being violated.

Check out the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The Founding Fathers of this great nation believed that the people's rights derived from God and were not "created" by man.

It would be crazy to think that they would create a society where rights derived by God would be so easily manipulated into justifying acts against Him.

218 posted on 05/19/2005 12:57:11 PM PDT by frogjerk
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