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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Artillery and sea units (PR#1476)
From: Brandon Craig Rhodes <brandon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 24 May 2002 08:21:51 -0400 
Richard Stallman <rms@xxxxxxx> writes:

> I beg to differ; I think the Athenian democracy was clearly a real
> democracy.  I don't think many would disagree with that.  I am not
> saying it was perfect.  But it did have a lot of features designed
> specifically to prevent the rich few from buying political
> decisions.  The US could learn from them ;-{.

I have long thought that their practice of random selection, which
eliminated campaigns for election or re-election from muddying the
motives of the citizens who landed in the assembly, the cleverest
political hack in history.

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Brandon Craig Rhodes   brandon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx   http://rhodesmill.org/brandon
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