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Quote by: Osborn F Enready  The popular vote, without unalienable rights, would allow any atrocity to take place by any majority, over any minority vote.
Is this not obvious common sense?
What country are you speaking of, and if the U.S., are you speaking of CURRENT government being a plutocracy, or the government as FOUNDED?
He was a brilliant man, but true democracy is a scham.
I agree, but sadly, it doesn't seem you understand the unconstitutional changes it took to get us here.
I suggest you do a little more investigating. |
Don't imply that America is anything other than a true democracy.
No piece of paper means anything without people to execute its instructions. Do you know the real reason the Soviet Union died? Their rules were quite solid, the politicians were literally entrenched, their people weren't even armed, but nobody besides a few high ranking politicians wanted to keep going with the system. Their tank commanders were given an order to put down the crowds and defend the Kremlin, but when those commanders changed their minds the system just stopped running.
America is free. We don't have to surround our politicians to make them leave; we can just vote. We have guns. Laws exist because of the consent of the majority here more than anywhere.
That being said we're probably better off with some checks and balances and constitutional limits. Clearly the majority agrees.