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jfkennedy Donating Member (219 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 02:27 AM
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4. I don't agree
Edited on Tue Aug-12-03 02:27 AM by jfkennedy
Genuine Democracy when it was created here in America, was developed as an experiment of sorts. It was made that way so as to not be so rigid as to not be a dictatorship. Most of the people that came over from other countries suffered under religious persecution so they knew that a country that had no tolerance for unpopular points of views or opinions by the majority of its citizens was indeed not freedom or a democracy.

It was in fact the role of government to be experimental so that it could be amended by the people (All the people). By all the people they did not just mean the majority but also the minority because they are also part of (all the people).

If one is not free all is not free. So basically freedom can only come when ones rights are protected no matter how much it may offend the majority that is called liberty.

And the role of the people is to govern themselves, such can happen if people wish to govern themselves.

America has gone way of track in what we once were a democracy. But I think me must think that a revolution is due. America is a revolutionary country it's in our roots.
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