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<blockquote data-quote="JL 0513" data-source="post: 2038377" data-attributes="member: 50088"><p>rickyb, you keep talking about democracy. The United States is a Republic, thank God. Not sure if you know the difference.</p><p></p><p>"In a republic, a constitution or charter of rights protects certain inalienable rights that cannot be taken away by the government, even if it has been elected by a majority of voters. In a "pure democracy," the majority is not restrained in this way and can impose its will on the minority."</p><p></p><p>This means that in your democracy, if the people wanted to take up a vote to give government control over free speech, a majority vote could overturn the freedom of speech. Recent votes on college campuses actually supported the idea of curbing free speech! We are witnessing such stupidly among the millennials it's scary. Anyway, this cannot happen in the US. Free speech, as an example, is our right and cannot be infringed no matter what. </p><p></p><p>You claim to be for the little guy but pure democracy is majority rule. You're minority opinion doesn't matter</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JL 0513, post: 2038377, member: 50088"] rickyb, you keep talking about democracy. The United States is a Republic, thank God. Not sure if you know the difference. "In a republic, a constitution or charter of rights protects certain inalienable rights that cannot be taken away by the government, even if it has been elected by a majority of voters. In a "pure democracy," the majority is not restrained in this way and can impose its will on the minority." This means that in your democracy, if the people wanted to take up a vote to give government control over free speech, a majority vote could overturn the freedom of speech. Recent votes on college campuses actually supported the idea of curbing free speech! We are witnessing such stupidly among the millennials it's scary. Anyway, this cannot happen in the US. Free speech, as an example, is our right and cannot be infringed no matter what. You claim to be for the little guy but pure democracy is majority rule. You're minority opinion doesn't matter [/QUOTE]
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