31 sats \ 2 replies \ @Malachi17 17 Sep \ on: The Constitution isn’t controversial. Hating it is! Politics_And_Law
Democracy isn't necessarily a good. Sparta and Athens figured that out. It limits democracy because crowds of people can be quite wrong-headed. The best that can be done, like statistics, is a representative sample. That's why the Constitution defines a Republic.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 18 Sep
Sparta was not a democracy
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17 18 Sep
Never said it was, but for the sake of being pedantic:
Sparta had what ancient Greek commentators called a 'mixed' constitution, which blended kingship, oligarchy, and democracy.
I was talking about the Peloponnese war that broke out between them.
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