[vannrox]

Exceptional! Article....

[FrogMom]

Bump for later reading, gotta go vote.

[PGalt]

bump

[philman_36]

Here is some help for you, which you desperately need.

[2banana]

The word "democracy" is not found in the US Constitution.

[RLK]

A constitutional republic is a mechanism for slowing down the corruptive process of democracy. Eventually, however, if the people are corrupt enough, long enough, they will overwhelm and slowly destroy even the most perfect of constitutions. That's where we are today.

[Teacher317]

The inherent vice of freedom is the unequal sharing of the blessings; the inherent blessing of equality will be the equal sharing of misery.

BUMP for a must-read!

[TiaS]

I can personally relate to that line about government being a broker in pillage -- it was not just my purse that they have stolen -- but my NAME too! Today, I'm voting for every GREEN thing I can find on the ballot.

[OXENinFLA]

Repeal the 17th Amendment BUMP!!!

[PhilipFreneau]

My favorite quote on Democracy is this one by James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, from Federalist Paper #10, November 23, 1787:

. . . democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

[philman_36]

Did you see this one? Forget Milk. Got ID?
Very tongue in cheek.

[MosesKnows]

The Constitution therefore states, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government . . . .”

Agreed; an exceptional article.

The 16th and 17th amendment to the Constitution started the nation on the path toward becoming a democracy, which is the exact condition of government warned against by the framers of the Constitution. The Democrat party's memorial to Paul Wellstone is an excellent example of the results of a democracy, which was rule by the mob.

I would add that no where in the Constitution of the United States will you find even a single occurrence of the words democracy, democrat, or democratic.

[MissAmericanPie]

Great article. I wish the founding fathers had added an amendment that the government cannot enter into any treaties with foreign entities without passage by popular vote. I also wish they had added a fool proof manner in which the citizens can sue for redress of grievances, which congress, down through the years, has successfully managed to blocked every avenue but revolution.

We should expect alot out of a Republican President, congress, and senate. Like returning alot of power to the states and getting back to a Republican form of government.

[GeekDejure]

Democracy = Democrats !!!

Republic = Republicans !!!

Any questions ???

[antidisestablishment]

Great article! It's a shame that most Americans would not have a clue what it was about. Damn Dewey and his ilk for stealing our children's heritage.

[Nonfaction]

Historian Alexander Fraser Tytler wrote then that “A democracy . . . can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”

Great quote, but probably apocryphal. Even the Library of Congress has been unable to locate it in any of Tytler's writings.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

DEMOCRACY IS THE RULE OF FOOLS BY FOOLS!!

[motor_racer]

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[Fiddlstix]

Great Article
Thanks for posting this

[IronJack]

No self-respecting person of that era would call himself a democrat.

Today, no self-respecting person would call himself a Democrat.