Subject: Re: The Myth of "Democracy"
Date: 5/24/2001 4:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: VFT INC
Message-id: <20010524193356.16630.00001003@ng-mf1.aol.com>
I wrote:
You have been deluded, Rick.
Theft is theft, even by "majority vote."
"Democracy" is two wolves and a lamb "voting" on what to have for lunch.
In message-id: <20010524174757.05591.00001287@ng-cf1.aol.com> dated: 5/24/2001 2:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, RJohnson64 writes:
Gee...I guess the founders messed up then, eh?
No, WE failed to keep the government given us by the Founders.
The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia
asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can
keep it." This exchange was recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in a diary entry that was later reproduced in the 1906 American Historical Review.
The New American - A Republic, If You Can Keep It - November 6, 2000
The Founding Fathers were passionately OPPOSED to democracy:
Republics and Democracies by Robert Welch
A Republic, Not a Democracy
Gridlock & Load A REPUBLIC, NOT A DEMOCRACY
On democracy in Our Republic
Republic not a Democracy, Fred Holden, History Standards, Independence Institute, School Standards
TST A Republic, Not a Democracy
Kevin C.
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