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Re:Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Make... by walshemj on Sunday October 30, 2016 @03:29PM (#12831730)
What you mean like those rich landowners back in 1778 :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution#178...

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Re:Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Make... by CamperBob2 on Sunday October 30, 2016 @04:28PM (#12832055)
Those "rich landowners" were not the gang of self-centered malcontents that revisionist historians describe. They were deeply aware and concerned -- rightfully so -- about the ways in which direct democracy can fail.

That's why they didn't adopt it.

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Re:Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Make... by sprafa on Sunday October 30, 2016 @07:55PM (#12833288)
Ok, so I'm super interested in what you said here. How can Ileatn more about the Framers consideration of direct democracy v
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Re:Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Make... by tedunangst on Sunday October 30, 2016 @08:08PM (#12833352)
Search for "pure democracy".

http://thefederalistpapers.org/federalist-papers/federalist-...

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Re:Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Make... by mark_edward on Sunday October 30, 2016 @05:13PM (#12832345)
Slavedrivers who are not malcontents seems like a contradiction to me.
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Re:Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Make... by afarrell on Sunday October 30, 2016 @07:31PM (#12833171)
People in real life are often contradictions.
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Re:Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Make... by mark_edward on Monday October 31, 2016 @10:29AM (#12836998)
No, people in real life delude themselves and others about how good they are.
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Re:Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Make... by ionised on Monday October 31, 2016 @12:34PM (#12838396)
I'm glad I'm not the only one that notices this.
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Re:Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns, After Pirate Party Make... by dcgudeman on Sunday October 30, 2016 @03:53PM (#12831871)
The delegates were generally convinced that an effective central government with a wide range of enforceable powers must replace the weaker Congress established by the Articles of Confederation. Their depth of knowledge and experience in self-government was remarkable. As Thomas Jefferson in Paris wrote to John Adams in London, "It really is an assembly of demigods." According to one view, the Framers embraced the federal ambiguities in the constitutional text allowing for compromise and cooperation about broad concepts rather than dictating specific policies for the future.

Are these the "rich landowners" you are referring to?

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