That's why republic beats a pure democracy any day. But I still think we engineered America wrong - IMO the States shouldn't exist. It should be a confederacy of city-states, and I don't care if the cities are democracies or counties (as in Counts, not the retarded not-county-counties we have) or duchies or whatever.
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city-states is better than states, but you still haven't gone down far enough. keep going...
once you hit the individual, stop. and then let them confederate up from there.
That's just democracy again
not if the individuals involved don't choose for it to be.
I think inviolable property is the way. I don't really think democracy can preserve property - its a feeding frenzy of the strong taking from the weak.
But moving from democracy (socialism) to private property (capitalism) is tricky. I feel like we're obligated to make an honest effort at fixing what we have.