-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mario, > > The young USA picked up the idea of democracy from > the Brits who had ruled > the thirteen colonies. Britain in turn had picked up > the idea from the > Greeks and then via the Roman Empire. A written > Constitution does not a > democracy make. Don't fool yourself. > Mario replies: > Your delusional misconceptions and faulty rationale and ability to fool yourself are becoming clearer with every post you make. > I was unaware that the Roman Empire had any concept of democracy. > The ancient Greeks and the Brits had systems that had many features of true "democracy" but, without the anchor of a written constitution and Bill of Rights, both had laws that could be changed at any time by a majority vote, leaving minorities out in the cold. Such democracies are basically unstable and unreliable. Actually, India has a more secure and documented democracy than the loosy goosy democracy that you have in Britain, and Iran will as well. > With your general ignorance about the US you probably have no idea that the US was the first country to have a written secular constitution and Bill of Rights that protects everyone's interest, not just the majority. Every citizen can refer to it, and it cannot be changed very easily.
