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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by ABCLAW on Friday November 17, 2017 @02:25PM (#15725180)
The first amendment did not create democracy. It was enacted in one. That's the point being made.
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Re:Reddit CEO Cracks Down on Abusive Content to Protect User... by Danihan on Friday November 17, 2017 @07:23PM (#15727065)
The colonists were from and used to monarchy.

Democracy was nearly a foreign concept to them and it very gradually evolved in the US after the Bill of Rights passed.

"The Founding Fathers rejected 'democracy' as defined by the Greeks, preferring instead 'a natural aristocracy', whereby only the landed gentry were entitled to a place in Congress."

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