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From: bartonr@jove.cs.pdx.edu (Robert Barton)
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Subject: PC's are democratic
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Date: 17 Jan 90 08:21:23 GMT
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 nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes:
> BTW, Free-market advocates should remember that there is at least one *key*
> difference between economic democracy and political democracy.  In a political
> democracy it is possible to create constitutional protections to keep the
> majority from imposing their will on the minority.

  I don't know about most other countries, but in the USA at least this depends
on the size of the majority.  A sufficient majority can always alter or repeal
constitutional restrictions.  Or a president might be able to get the Supreme
Court to re-interpret the restrictions on government power by threatening to
pack the court with his disciples.