Stephen, List: I would suggest that democracy IS majority rule, and thus that the United States is NOT a democracy. Instead, it is a republic; in particular, a federal republic, with numerous checks and balances intended to prevent the concentration of power in any one person or institution--including, most notably, the majority of the population.
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Stephen C. Rose <stever...@gmail.com> wrote: > Edwina, List > > To take only one point, I emphatically hold that democracy is much more > than majority rule. We have just had an election which we would have to > denote undemocratic if that was the case. As a polity I favor a > constitutional democracy such as the we we have in the US. In addition to > not being rule by a simple majority, democracy is a skein of things, among > them rights, a mode of personal behavior, an ideal for all social and > community polities and an itemization or index of precious rights such as > we have in our Bill of Rights. I do not mean to minimize your project which > has intrinsic interest relevant t the topic. But the definition as majority > rule is on its face inadequate to express what democracy is in a system or > ethics. > > Books http://buff.ly/15GfdqU >
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