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To: Rev M. Bresciani

democracies aren’t eternal, after all.


5 posted on 04/18/2024 5:54:58 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: xoxox

That is why the founders rejected a Democracy and went with a Representative Republic instead.


17 posted on 04/18/2024 6:17:22 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: xoxox

That’s why the Founding Fathers did not give us a democracy! They gave us a Republic as Franklin said but we failed to keep because the siren song of democracy. Like all siren songs the end is crashing onto rocks to be eaten!


31 posted on 04/18/2024 8:01:00 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: xoxox

They typically last around 250 years.

2024-1776=248


32 posted on 04/18/2024 8:07:08 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: xoxox

That’s why the Founding Fathers did not give us a democracy! They gave us a Republic as Franklin said but we failed to keep because the siren song of democracy. Like all siren songs the end is crashing onto rocks to be eaten!


40 posted on 04/18/2024 1:40:40 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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