On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 05:43:41 -0600, Cecil Moore
wrote:

Matt Osborn wrote:

Bill Turner wrote:
Nonsense. Go check your dictionary. We are a democratic republic.

" 2. a. A state in which the supreme power rests in the people and
their elected representatives or officers, as opposed to one governed
by a king or similar ruler; a commonwealth. Now also applied loosely
to any state which claims this designation."

You left out one of the definitions which can be described as a pure
democracy. From Webster's New Universal Unabridged: "... the supreme
power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them ..."
That is the type of democracy that voted for Socrates to drink
hemlock, which he did.


A democracy is one in which 3 wolves and 1 sheep vote on the evening
meal!