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Old 12-22-2005, 05:09 AM
bobman0330 bobman0330 is offline
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Default Re: Athenian Democracy circa Pericles\' time

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Do you think everyone born in the United States should have to sign onto the Constitution before it applies to them?

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Sounds good to me.

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And to me too.

In fact, it has been my personal conviction that being the free citizen of a polity should be a matter of choice and not of privilege or mandate. People who reach a certain pre-determined age should be allowed to choose, on an all-or-nothing basis, whether or not to accept the polity's laws and rules. It goes without saying that this would also mean accepting a number of obligations, such as taking up arms to defend the polity.

Of course, as soon as the people become citizens, they will have, like every other citizen, the right not just to change the government and the people's representation in it, but to question or try to change the very rules and laws of the polity!

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I think you just like saying "polity."
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