Slinging Mud

[missydog1]

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Originally posted by oink

That's why we have a constitutional republic and not a democracy. Many don't understand that and want us to be a pure democracy.

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Glad you said that oink. Many don't understand that and speak as if we already are a pure democracy.

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"Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths... A republic, by which I mean a government in which a scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking." James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 10 (1787).

ÒA democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.Ó Thomas Jefferson

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DaVinci, your quote is courtesy of Benjamin Franklin.