From: Len Flatley (lenny@velocity.net)
Date: Sun Aug 24 1997 - 19:31:48 MDT
On Sun, 24 Aug 1997 EvMick@aol.com wrote:
> (I heard it was a democracy too...I'm beginning to doubt it...less than 15%
> of the populance voted for our current president...but there he is...some
> democracy...<yeah...I know...voter apathy...more like voter disgust...>)
actually, the USA is a Constitutional Republic ...
in a democracy, majority rules. our founding fathers (ugh) new
this, so they established a Republic, whose Constitution
established rights for he individual.
evolution is always spurned on by a few cranky individuals that
choose to go against the grain.
lenny
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