[Khern]

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"good law, second hand smoke is a bitch. Ban it in public I say."

sounds good, as long as we can ban the smells of fast food and frying bacon in public, too- it's offensive to vegans. Oh yeah... car exaust... loud music... they gotta go: you could get asthma and lose your hearing!

...and don't even get me started on skateboards. [/sarcasam, but you knew that...]

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Gather majority support for any of those initiatives, and I'm sure you'd have a better case. Good for Washington, it makes me glad I live there when I'm not in school. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

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Gotta love growing democracies

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Allow me two quotations on the subject:




James Madison, Federalist Paper 10:

"Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; 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."




U.S. Army Training Manual TM2000-05, 1928

Democracy, n. "A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy."


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