On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:07:21 -0600, Richard Casady
wrote:

On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:27:44 +0700, Bruce
wrote:

Weren't both the United States (USA) and the Confederated States of
America (CSA) democracies? and didn't they fight a war? Wasn't it
significant?

Of course, the US was not a democracy.

Casady

You are being awful technical here. Has there been any pure
democracies? Even the Athenian "democracy" wouldn't be considered as
such in today's enlightened society; after all the women and slaves
didn't get to vote :-)

The early Scandinavians had the "Thing" that was somewhat of a town
Meeting sort of thing but again, women and slaves needn't apply.

Bruce

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