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From: aouriri@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Is America a Democracy
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Date: Sun, 19-Jan-86 02:04:22 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 19 02:04:22 1986
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> If not, let's discard BOTH the 1962 Supreme Court's "one man, one vote"
> (which, by the way, was never the intent of the Founding Fathers in 1787)
> and Mr. Aouriri's "one dollar/one vote."  Reorganize the government like
> a corporation (NB: NOT a "corporate state"!), and sell SHARES for something
> like $5 apiece to Americans.  These shareholders would elect a President and
> a Board of Directors according the "one SHARE/one vote" principle, the way 
> 					-- Matt Rosenblatt

Matt's propsal of "one share/one vote" is equivalent to
"X DOLLARS/ONE VOTE" where x is the market price or value of
one government share. To the extent that those government shares
will be bought and sold on the free market (the NY stock
exchange?), their price x will fluctuate according to the economic
law of supply and demand. We would have then a fluctuating
democratic principle of government.
If we adopt such a system, we will have to be careful and keep in
check those who would try to manipulate the government stock price.
Wall-Street Corporate raiders and take-over specialists will be
delighted to expand into the market for government control,
whenever the market for corporate control gets depressed.
And of course, we can expect foreign investors (Arabs,
Japanese,...and who knows, may be russians) to pour all their
money in our country to take over our government. Nice way to
solve the budget deficit, is n't'it?  
:-) -:) -):
:-) -:) -):
 Chedley Aouriri
 ITT-ATC, Shelton, CT.
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