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Journal by pudge on Friday February 03, 2006 @02:26PM

Actual democracy is illegal in the United States at the state and federal level.

It's in the Constitution, Article IV: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government ... ."

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True liberty (Score:2)

by jdavidb ( 449077 ) * writes:

Democracy, Republicanism, Constitutional restraint of government, and the dissolution of absolute monarchy have all been great strides toward liberty and checks on tyranny. However, none of them is sufficient to achieve it completely nor to secure it permanently.

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