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Originally posted by babyX:
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Originally posted by Shahram:
Mob rule is not democracy.
I thought the point of democracy was, in fact, that [b]majority rules? I mean, isn't that the point of voting and counting said votes?[/b]
Except that we're NOT a Democracy. We're a Republic. That means that we elect people to stand up for us and be our collective voice in the government...not that whatever we vote is what we get.

The Founding Fathers didn't trust the "ignorant masses" enough to give us a full-on democracy.