From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Who is the sheriff? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:13:36 +0100
At 22:47 10-03-03 -0500, John Giorgis wrote:
>Don't forget our wonderful, non democratic means for selecting a >president.
Well, there are a lot of advantages to republican government over democratic.
What are those alleged advantages, and *why* are they advantages?
Well, for one thing, every voice is heard and represented. One of the primary disadvantages of a pure democracy is minority voices can easily be crushed by the majority view. Theoretically, the representation inherent to a republic allows minorities to speak, be heard and spark debate.
I'm sure our resident polisci experts will be able to answer in more detail.
Jon
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