Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 49thMIMOMander who wrote (3156)	10/7/2001 12:07:56 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 281500

Ah. My understanding is that the first democracy was Athens. We are actually quite proud of our Constitution because it is the oldest one in the world. We don't change it much because we did it pretty much right the first time. It's actually quite difficult to amend our Constitution. That way, it doesn't get changed very much. Politicians have an unfortunate tendency to meddle with things to satisfy short term goals. Not sure when Finland became a democracy, but I think we've been one longer. It doesn't count does it first, IMO, it counts who does it the longest. cobalt@redwhiteandblue.com