>> From: Bart Ingles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: Responses to some of Forest's ideas
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > See *consent of the governed* in the second paragraph of the U.S.A.
>> > Declaration of Independence.
>> >
>> > Democracy means majority rule --- as far as elections are concerned.
>> Says who? Maybe as far as two-candidate elections are concerned. The
>> phrase 'majority rule' itself seems historically recent.
And perhaps a bit out of place in a context such as STV,
which would be, according to the "definition", undemocratic.