Re North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org>
> Date: January 3, 2018 at 3:49:16 AM EST
> To: John Day <jeanjour () comcast net>
> Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy
>
> > From: John Day <jeanjour () comcast net>
> > Date: Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 8:21 PM
> >
> > Perhaps someone should clue them in that the US was never intended to be a democracy.
>
> True, but so what?  Those guys aren't around any more and the country's ideals have evolved.  Its what the current 
> citizens want that matters, and I think most people in the US say they would like to live in a democracy (and 
> presumably most would say they do -- let's not argue about that point in this message).  They wanted wealthy 
> landowners to select and populate the upper house, but people happily changed that.
>
> TCP doesn't look like RFC 793 any more and the end-to-end principle seems to sadly have been unceremoniously chucked 
> overboard -- but I'm going to follow the newer RFCs and not ask Int Perf what he was thinking in 1974.
>
> Likewise looking at original definitions and intents is useful_as input_ when helping to figure out the "baselines" 
> or common understanding (e.g. how free should free speech be) but at the end of the day it has to bow to the truth on 
> the ground.  



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