02-02-2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hellosailor
As Franklin said after the first American nation was shut down in favor of a second and different government, "[the new one is] a republic, if you can keep it." It was never intended to be a democracy, much less the mobocracy it has become. 80% of the nation was never supposed to have the vote, the mob was seen as unfit to govern themselves.
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Quite so.
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