For "Democracy" And "The Republic"
By Paul Street
The Founders included some brilliant individuals, but their brilliance was harnessed largely to the cause of antidemocracy. Drawn from the elite propertied segments of a deeply stratified society, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention shared their compatriots John Jay’s and John Adam’s view that “the people who own the country ought to govern it.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17016.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Street
The Founders included some brilliant individuals, but their brilliance was harnessed largely to the cause of antidemocracy. Drawn from the elite propertied segments of a deeply stratified society, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention shared their compatriots John Jay’s and John Adam’s view that “the people who own the country ought to govern it.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17016.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Paul+Street
rudkla - 10. Feb, 10:15
