Democracy Defined
Here's a definition of the above from a 1928 handbook distributed to U.S. Army officers, quoted in a letter to the editor in the print edition of The American Conservative:
Here's a definition of the above from a 1928 handbook distributed to U.S. Army officers, quoted in a letter to the editor in the print edition of The American Conservative:
- DEMOCRACY: A government of masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other kind of 'direct' expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the majority shall regulate, whether it be based on deliberation or governed by passion. prejudice, or impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences, in demagogism, licence, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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