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His nation still survived till the end, it was probably the last surviving mortal democracy
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For the most part the good folk who take up the cudgels of representative democracy on our behalf are well meaning, hard working souls armed with the sword of conviction and the shield of dedication
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about the protection of democracy very seriously
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This was called democracy with a small 'd'
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In the meantime I believe we need a democracy spelt with a capital 'D'
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Christian ideas, including that of democracy
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where democracy is only for the first category
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From here until the idea of democracy is no more than a
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compromise, where the idea of democracy circulates
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We recognize democracy in the third type
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they wanted it to be democracy
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democracy only at the propagandistic level
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necessary (religion, not church), democracy played this
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(and of democracy too), he thought that proletariat will
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democracy, its limits and possibilities
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repeatedly, and monarchy and democracy are the two
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the democracy put nothing instead, there is not a
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And there is not only democracy
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democracy, but the politicians know best about this and
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monarchy to whom that invented democracy
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they are the parents of democracy, they
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who invented democracy too
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the belief that they invented democracy
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that democracy was a Greek invention,
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the democracy, and was heavily involved in the
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Well, with the democracy I have
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In respect of democracy I have another note
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that democracy lays in the mentality of the
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(Note that democracy is a
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“Is there any democracy in this Federation
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head, “They should see the “forge” of Democracy now,” he muttered
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We on this side the water are afraid lest the multitude of American representatives should overturn the balance of the constitution, and increase too much either the influence of the crown on the one hand, or the force of the democracy on the other
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My Dad said that I was destroying the foundations of the American way, which I couldn’t understand, since I thought the American way was to foster democracy, for all
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The power and corruption, the democracy that is not real and the
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In the 1920"s, while serving time in an Italian prison, this Italian philosopher and communist advised his colleagues and acolytes that a frontal assault against democracy and capitalism would fail
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We need to recall that, in the classical democracy of Athens, approximately one-third of the inhabitants of that city-state were slaves and women, and not being citizens, did not have the right to vote
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Don"t the hand-wringers understand that Israel has a fair number of F-16"s and F-18"s, both of which are far more deadly than any helicopter, and neither of which has been used in the most recent intifadas? Israel is the only democracy in the entire Middle East
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Is it wrong for the American democracy to support the Israel democracy? (Ask Obama
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Such will never comport with democracy or republicanism as we know it
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President Ivanov was someone who had been democratically elected – though could there have been a more stark illustration of the flawed nature of democracy? In centuries past, people voted for the radical alternative seemingly out of desperation, for whoever seemed convincing enough that they alone held the key to a better future
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Promising starts have been made in William Gairdner"s „The Trouble With Democracy," and David Stove"s „Against the Idols of the Age
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Regardless, the results have been devastating to both our democracy and our liberty
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Around thirty years ago, as I was finishing the studies required for my degree in political science, one of the professors told the class I was in that we had more or less achieved political democracy in America, and that we now had to move on to economic democracy
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I asked him to explain at whose expense economic democracy would be achieved
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Once again, straight from the Latin: „a public thing," and not, for God"s sake, to be confused with a Democracy, which is precisely what we do not have in these United States
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And please notice that Franklin did not say: „A Democracy, if you can keep it"
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Check his writings for astute analyses of the trouble with democracy, with especial reference on the troubles we bring ourselves
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Laws have to be passed in the best interests of the majority, Raven, that’s how democracy works
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Also known as the trouble with democracy
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It shifted from being a dictatorship to what it liked to call a democracy with blinding speed
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“This is not a democracy, Commander,” she said, looking up at him sharply
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Just look at President Lincolns Gettysburg speech which is almost of no length and summarise everything you need to know about democracy
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Such nations, I believe, should be treated with caution until evidence of good will has been properly determined lest the ―Trojan horse‖ achieves its global objectives by continuing to discredit and undermine liberal democracy within the framework of assumed alliances
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Suharto did eventually get overthrown by an Indonesian public fed up with enormous cronyism, government corruption, human rights abuses, and lack of democracy
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These forced Suharto out by 1998 and brought democracy in
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Obviously, US colonial control of the Philippines was never about democracy, and there is no reason to assume democracy would have come any sooner or later thanks to US rule
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Obviously, if democracy were the true reason for US conquest, the country would have become independent shortly after 1916, when Filipinos first elected their own congress
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Regulation can be either good or bad depending on how structured, but demonization of the term is simply a ruse to get the public to hate government, which in practical terms means the public is being taught to hate democracy, and thus distrust themselves
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Such a practice serves elite needs, for it means the public will either stop caring about democracy, or distrust those who care
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Having said that it is not as common place as it used to be! Things have changed in the last 20 years since Mr Mandela showed the world that democracy is achievable in Africa
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Claimed to be intended to bring democracy, the Iraq War led to an extremely corrupt and limited system where torture continued at a higher rate than under Saddam Hussein
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A democracy should never try to be or act like an empire since it is inherently inhumane and destructive to both the ruler and ruled
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Democracy never came to Kuwait as promised
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” The Confederacy was an oligarchy, an elite run government, not anything close to a democracy
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US control of these nations also retarded local democracy and self sufficient economies
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This has always been the process followed in this democracy to carry out actions as decisive as war
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In Brazil, the Carter administration did aid the pro democracy movement
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But when ex Carter visited Brazil as an ex president, human rights activists hailed him for aiding the return of Brazil's democracy
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Indeed, I continue crying because there are still victims to be buried, but I also weep for the message that a young, blackmailed democracy has just sent to all soulless terrorists around the world
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Reagan bizarrely praised him as the “father of Dominican democracy
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The truth was coming out, naturally, after the elections, but it was too late, and the will of the people, blackmailed and deceived in my view, must be respected, as it must be done in any democracy worth that name
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As in any good democracy, after explaining the reason for my conclusion, some were convinced that it would indeed be so
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Of course, I do not refer here to the editorials, which in any democracy enjoy a degree of legitimacy and demand respect
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Over 30 years later, China is still not close to being a democracy, but it is not as repressive as it once was
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was far less dogmatic and stubborn than his son though, so likely he would simply have left early, leaving another dictator friendly to the US in power rather than hoping to start a democracy
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While he did speak of democracy and right and wrong while winning support for the war, Bush was far too pragmatic and ultimately cynical to actually believe in these words
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To the surprise and often horror of many US conservatives, these nonviolent revolutions were far more successful at bringing democracy than a decade of war and hundreds of thousands of US troops in Iraq or Afghanistan
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This does not mean full democracy by any means, or anything but the most cautious peace
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Iraq remains a dictatorship instead of an extremely limited corrupt attempt at democracy
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It was never a democracy, always run by a tiny oligarchy
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After the war he presided over an enormously benevolent occupation of Japan, transforming a fascist state into an officially pacifist liberal democracy, one with an enviable progressive record of environmentalism, feminism, labor rights, and economic prosperity and technological development
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Public pressure certainly would limit any long term occupation, and may cause his administration to concede the formality of some extremely limited appearance of a democracy, much as happened in El Salvador in the mid 80s and Guatemala in the late 80s
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Also, it accomplishes the truthful democracy without there is political representation
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benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy will
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In a Republic or Democracy a Presidential candidate cannot just run for the Middle 1/3
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democracy, without there are political
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Driving was a democracy, and there had to be rules beyond the basics
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This direct democracy strongly influenced our own “representative republic
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It was expected of the citizen to not only partake in the democracy, but also to attend the dramatic performances of the theater
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A fearful nation is one where the very foundation of democracy is easily
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Soldiers are sent to fight in these „profit wars" under the false pretense of defending national security interests – defending democracy, our way of life, and freedom
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Many times they have manipulated third world countries by displacing democracy with a dictatorship
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This will be a great resource saver apart from ushering in a new era of direct democracy when the society is prepared for it or the awareness in the people is strong enough
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The majority that should govern in a democracy is to be rendered passive and submissive
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” Alexis de Tocqueville, that remarkably clairvoyant nineteenth century French observer of American democracy agrees
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That is fun and democracy