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To: TimF who wrote (223987)	3/15/2005 2:30:10 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573824

Rule by the majority means the majority of voters. The majority of US citizens did not vote in the last presidential election (or any recent national election) Definitions are often fuzzy. If the group of people eligble to vote is a small minority than, esp. if they are decided by class or status I would call the government an oligarchy, but large groups of people being unable to vote only makes for a flawed democracy not an non-democracy. Back before 1865, only white men were allowed to vote. White women and black men and women were not allowed to vote. White men were a minority. We absolutely, definitively did not have rule by the majority. It was not a flawed democracy. Democracy can not be flawed and still be a real democracy. The US was not a democracy until after white women, and black women and men had the vote. It took us over hundred years after the Declaration of Independence was signed to become a true democratic state. ted