Zimbabwe’s Opposition Party Decided that Voting Wasn’t Worth Dying for
June 24th, 2008
A VERY cool editorial from The Daily Reckoning
A bit…
The founders of the United States of America distrusted democracy so much they designed a whole government to prevent it. Not once does the word ‘democracy’ appear in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights. The Constitution is basically an elaborate restriction on what the voters can do. There are different branches of the federal government, expected to offset each other’s power. And there’s the Bill of Rights itself, limiting the power of the central government – no matter how many people vote.
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