"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 05:13:51 -0800, "Ed Price"
wrote:


"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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Gene Storey wrote:
I personally think that only those who are 18 and above, and are not
on
Social Security should be allowed to vote.

Your posting is irrelevant. If *any* citizen is prohibited from voting
on each and every law, it is not a pure democracy. You are prohibited
from voting on each and every law.

In the first place we are a "Republic", remember the pledge "and to
the Republic for which it stands".which is ruled by a "Representative
Democracy", not a pure democracy.

Roger Halstead (K8RI EN73 & ARRL Life Member)
www.rogerhalstead.com
N833R World's oldest Debonair? (S# CD-2)
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

But any warm body is not necessarily a citizen. The democracy can create
rules, democratically approved, which limit the participation in the
society. If you do not abide by the rules, you may become ineligible to
continue participation within the democracy. Indeed, the simple democracy
can do anything it (collectively) wants. Therein lies the reason for
modifying a pure democracy with a set of fixed rules (possibly called a
constitution).

Ed
wb6wsn


Roger:

If you were replying to anything I posted, your intent was unclear. I have
been attempting to show that the USA is NOT, by careful plan, a democracy.
We have a constitutional republic, despite the blatherings of the civically
challenged. Those who bleat the merits of a pure democracy would be the
first to bitch about an infringement of their "rights." Democracy knows no
rights, only majorities.

Ed
wb6wsn