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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by dpark on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @07:45PM (#12301505)
Even accepting your personal definition of "democracy" to mean "pure majority rule", constitutions typically have provisions for modifications by majority vote. So a being "bound by a constitution" does not eliminate majority rule.
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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by khattam on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @09:54PM (#12309925)
That definition is anything but personal and carries the history of the democratic system prevalent at the time the term was coined. Just because you decide to use the same term for everything now doesn't mean that the original definition is "personal".
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Re:Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publ... by dpark on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:52PM (#12317093)
Democracy never meant "mob rule". Even in Athenian democracy, few things were decided by actual majority rule. Never in history has there been a democracy where pure majority rule was the typical case.

So yes, it is a personal definition. Scholars don't use this definition. Pundits don't use this definition. The common man doesn't use this definition. It's a BS definition, and if it weren't, it would be pointless and redundant because "majority rule" captures this already.

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