Friday, October 17, 2003

Ilana Mercer: republic or democracy?

Ilana Mercer makes some excellent points in the following article.

We were once a Federal Republic – now we are a centralized democracy. But while the founding idea of a republic was beautiful, the reality of a democracy is repugnant...

Madison, in fact, denounced democracy as "incompatible with personal security or the rights of property." That's because in a democracy, the power of the central government isn't curtailed...

Democracy, like leftism, is un-American...

The (real) Right prefers society – namely, voluntary associations and private contracts. The Left favors the state – that is, coercion and control in the service of a common, collectivist decree. The Right is about individualism; the Left is about statism...

WorldNetDaily: Exporting democracy

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