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Re: Honolulu or HOMOlulu?

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From: Kyler Laird
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 00:00
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"Robert J. Stock" <rjstock@dawg.delcoelect.com> writes:

>Dan Duncan wrote:
>> I've seen it written that the best example of a TRUE democracy is
>> two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

>Then a constitutional republic must be a few wolves deciding which
>of the many sheep to have for dinner.

This assumes that the constitution grants the wolves
sheep-eating (and dinner sheep-selection) powers (or,
in the case of USA wolves, that the electorate has
just let them take the powers).

--kyler
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From: laird@pier.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird)
Subject: Re: Honolulu or HOMOlulu?
Date: 1997/03/17
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