Chicago_DSL6
join:2003-08-04
Palatine, IL
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Re: Government Does Not Equal People anymore
said by Thaler  :said by Ga Dawg :If enough voters voted to confiscate his property would you be in favor of allowing that? You mean like imminent domain? Isn't that still alive and well? Voting is one of the inherit benefits, and downfalls of democracy. On the one hand, everyone gets a say. On the other, individual(s) on the losing vote don't get their way - kinda hard to appease both camps. Last I checked, America (for the most part) has agreed to a variety of "majority vote" systems. The U.S. is not democratic, it is a republic. |
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tsu9
join:2001-08-17
Wheeling, IL
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Government has that ability, yes; albiet, in a form that requires just compensation for the previous landowner's troubles.
Of course, that isn't a terribly popular measure, as you might expect. But, it still does happen these days.
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"You do not secure the liberty of our country and value of our democracy by undermining them, that's the road to hell." - Lord Phillips of Sudbury. |
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Thaler
Premium
join:2004-02-02
Encino, CA
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said by Ga Dawg :If enough voters voted to confiscate his property would you be in favor of allowing that? You mean like imminent domain? Isn't that still alive and well?
Voting is one of the inherit benefits, and downfalls of democracy. On the one hand, everyone gets a say. On the other, individual(s) on the losing vote don't get their way - kinda hard to appease both camps. Last I checked, America (for the most part) has agreed to a variety of "majority vote" systems. |
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Ga Dawg
join:2003-09-11
Marietta, GA
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said by tsu9 :One citizen. Compared to [enough] voters that said, "Yes." If enough voters voted to confiscate his property would you be in favor of allowing that? |
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