Nah. Doesn't count. People get to vote or they don't. The democracy idea snowballed, there was the house of commons, but when the US put it into practice, people predicted mayhem would result.
The idea of giving an uneducated farmer a vote at all was appalling, and largely the reason we have electoral college: it was to hedge our bets, just in case the "ignorant" were swayed to put someone in charge who didn't belong there.
No one believed the system would work. Least of all world-wide.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Greeks' democracy... it was the aristocracy that had the vote, correct? Shepherds and people who belonged to a certain household were automatically represented by the head of that family?
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Date: 2004-09-18 01:56 am (UTC)Nah. Doesn't count. People get to vote or they don't. The democracy idea snowballed, there was the house of commons, but when the US put it into practice, people predicted mayhem would result.
The idea of giving an uneducated farmer a vote at all was appalling, and largely the reason we have electoral college: it was to hedge our bets, just in case the "ignorant" were swayed to put someone in charge who didn't belong there.
No one believed the system would work. Least of all world-wide.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Greeks' democracy... it was the aristocracy that had the vote, correct? Shepherds and people who belonged to a certain household were automatically represented by the head of that family?
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