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1 posted on 09/16/2010 7:57:45 AM PDT by Sad Hill
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To: Sad Hill

A BRILLIANT man who was completely”objective”in his writings about the great “experiment”in self-governance known as America.He warned(however)that it could all fail if(and when) The People found that they could vote themselves aggrandisements from a confiscatory government!


2 posted on 09/16/2010 8:10:17 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Sad Hill

I’m fairly certain that the reason we are a REPUBLIC is because the founders were very wary of democracy, which is basically mob rule.

Democracy = three lions and one sheep deciding “what’s for dinner.”


3 posted on 09/16/2010 9:02:51 AM PDT by ConradofMontferrat
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