Responses to some of Forest's ideas

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/29/01 12:20:39 AM, you wrote:

<<DEMOREP1 at aol.com 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.

Mr. Ingles wrote-

Says who?  Maybe as far as two-candidate elections are concerned.  The
phrase 'majority rule' itself seems historically recent.>>
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D- Says me and many prior folks.

See the many references to *majority* in The Second Treatise of Government by 
John Locke (1690).

See Federalist No. 10 (1787-1788).

Democracy (majority rule) is compared to monarchy/ oligarchy (minority rule 
by 1/ more than 1, but less than a majority) --- nothing new in 7,000 years 
of political math.

Consensus and unanimity are special utopian dream forms of 100 percent 
majorities.

The word *Democracy* has, of course, taken on a whole lot of meanings to 
different folks --- justice, *good* government, etc., etc.

See Art. IV, Sec. 4 of the U.S.A. Constitution -

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican 
Form of Government, ***

The *Republican Form* in 1787 obviously did NOT mean a monarchy / oligarchy 
form of government in the States -- leaving -- guess what --  the *Democracy* 
form ONLY.