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To: Dead Corpse
Their definition of "anarchy" was the Democratic chaos of the French revolution.

Sorry, you can't lie facts into existence.

AN'ARCHY, n. [Gr. rule.]

Want of government; a state of society, when there is no law or supreme power, or when the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with impunity; political confusion.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Busted again.
773 posted on 06/25/2009 1:04:28 PM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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To: Mojave
Go back a little further. The French Revolution was the Anarchy that the Founders feared. That it wasn't real "anarchy", but a rule by the Mob (Democracy), this didn't keep them from using the term although they rightly feared a pure Democracy for this very reason.

Political "Anarchy" is the following:

an⋅ar⋅chy

/ˈænərki/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [an-er-kee] Show IPA
–noun
1. a state of society without government or law.
2. political and social disorder due to the absence of governmental control: The death of the king was followed by a year of anarchy.
3. a theory that regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society.
4. confusion; chaos; disorder: Intellectual and moral anarchy followed his loss of faith.

Origin:
1530–40; (< MF anarchie or ML anarchia) < Gk, anarchía lawlessness, lit., lack of a leader, equiv. to ánarch(os) leaderless (an- an- 1 + arch(ós) leader + -os adj. suffix) + -ia -y 3

775 posted on 06/25/2009 1:17:16 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (III)
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