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Originally Posted by Pokesan
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a bit quick on the draw there champ
you were equating taxation to slavery, ya?
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No. I specifically used the numbers 87% and 13% (13% of America is black) so that there would be no equivocation about the fact I was using the term slavery literally. In a direct democracy, there are no fundamental rights. This permits a tyranny of the majority, whereby the rights of the minority can be trampled by the majority at whim.
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Originally Posted by James Madison
pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths
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