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- From: kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm)
- Subject: Re: Campaign funding a joke
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:09:59 GMT
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- mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes:
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- >I've heard of a republic, for sure. But why do we need a republic? Or
- >more appropriately, why DID we need a republic? Let's send paul revere
- >from town to town and get him to poll everyone on everything, right?
- >More like it is that we do NOW have the ability to vote on public agenda
- >every year and get complete vote tally within a few hours...
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- Just because we have the technical capacity does not mean it is a good
- idea. The public gets far too rapped up and emotional over issues, and
- a more delibrate process is necessary.
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