> In a democracy such as existed in many of the Greek
>city states (at least for a time and at least for free males), any question
>could be put to a popular vote, the people could be appealed to at any
>time. In a constitutional republic (as we are supposed to have)
>appealing every decision to the popular vote is seen as mob rule . . .
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