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To: SheLion

Here's a Freeper link and more ammo for you to use against people who think democratic mob rule is a great idea. It's quite good. Here's a sample -

Samuel Adams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, championed the new Constitution in his state precisely because it would not create a democracy. "Democracy never lasts long," he noted. "It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself." He insisted, "There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

New York's Alexander Hamilton, in a June 21, 1788 speech urging ratification of the Constitution in his state, thundered: "It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity."

From:

"A Republic, If You Can Keep It" (November 6, 2000)
The New American ^ | November 6, 2000 | John F. McManus
Posted on 05/01/2006 1:23:10 PM EDT by Sweetjustusnow


43 posted on 05/03/2006 6:56:24 AM PDT by sergeantdave (And though getting up in the world attracts attention, it does not establish solid worth.)
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To: sergeantdave
"A Republic, If You Can Keep It" (November 6, 2000)
The New American ^ | November 6, 2000 | John F. McManus
Posted on 05/01/2006 1:23:10 PM EDT by Sweetjustusnow

Thank you.  I will do a google search on it later! :)

45 posted on 05/03/2006 6:58:29 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: sergeantdave

I don't see a democratic vote in this article, do you?


46 posted on 05/03/2006 7:02:52 AM PDT by Raycpa
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