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**Zhgpavye** · 07-18-2007, 05:24 PM

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

Love it! And so true today. The word "mob" is interesting ....

I suppose the alternative is a situation where, say, one poercent may take away the rights of the other 99.

Also, the whole point of principles-based (as oppsoed to emrely structural) cosntitutions i sto rphibit excesses on the part of the majority.

07-18-2007, 05:24 PM	#12
Zhgpavye Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 538 Senior Member	"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." - Thomas Jefferson Love it! And so true today. The word "mob" is interesting .... I suppose the alternative is a situation where, say, one poercent may take away the rights of the other 99. Also, the whole point of principles-based (as oppsoed to emrely structural) cosntitutions i sto rphibit excesses on the part of the majority.
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