You confuse the founding of America with the creation of Democracy by the Greeks thousands of years ago.

You are correct that America was really the first country to free itself from the Divine Right of Kings in that it rejected religion as the basis of government. This alone has been often cited as the greatest political accomplishment of the United States. No longer was God the basis of government but instead the People were the basis of government.

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Soldiers swear to protect and defend the Constitution with their lives.

Politicians swear to protect and defend the Constitution with someone else's life.

I wasn't confused with this -- I was just talking in terms of contemporary Western history. Mainly, the French Revolution that spurred a more broad Democratic Revolution in Europe and America.

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Philosophy of Liberty : Individual Sovereignty

Well there are ways to make our government more representative. What we have today is the tyranny of the majority. (actually a minority since most people don't vote.)

One idea would work like this. Take the US House of Representatives for example. In each district the top 2 or 3 candidates in terms of votes would all be elected and would cast votes in the House based on the number of votes they received in the election. We'd have more Reps but all or most of the people would be represented instead of just the winners of the election.

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You know all that stuff you learned from listening to Rush Limbaugh and Bill ORielly? It's all a lie. Pass it on.

At first a government is necessary to ensure public security. And it evolutes with coordination of solidarity assistance among economic production sectors of the society . In the advanced phase it is an issuer of unemployment checks, idleness citizen and permanent resident checks, maternity checks, old age security checks, "crisis period" adjustment checks etc ... with adequate and reasonable responsibilizing conditions (job training, job registration, social duty drafts etc ...) and prospective and merit factor considerations (levels of education, seniority of citizenship, duration of past services, amount of past achievements etc ...) . It is also a re-equilibrating agent to moderate excesses of citizens to avoid repetitions of undesirable situations, to enhance peace and to build a more human nation and world . With exceptional cases and in general expectably ,elected parliamentary individuals in proper procedures of democracy with its formal institutions should be able to take votes and devise watching mechanisms on government measures as proposed by the elected executive (or congressional peers) with public observation and judgment (press, civil assotiations, citizens' movements , opinion forums , etc ...). So if procedures are well arranged, a government will be able to take decisions based on a consensus or synthesis of different major options and other respective ponderations . Whether a government is from a party with a majority number of seats or from a coalition of many parties, a government is a government with its responsibilities to be carried out ,making the society moving toward based on rational, reasonable orientations of possible policies for the sake of public interests.

The role of public government will be minimal if civil service and law-making procedures have been routinely established with statistics, records, service schedules, revision methodically etc ... Bettably, the number of legislators and of public administration workers will be greatly reduced if that is an objective by a government . A governmentless society is not quite a solid bet but an organized democratic anarchy for citizens' public services is a guarantee toward citizens' freedom and conditions for citizens (of individual excellence or of collective strives) to realize useful and prestigious ventures for their own heritage or the public appreciation, - subjective or objective, in nations or humanity of seriousness with civil protocols and formalities of laws and regulations.

Actually part of traditional government cumbersomeness has been greatly reduced with development of technologies such as heavy traffic controls ...
A free society is one that functions with unspied but well parametered flows of services for human fellows, whether they have a job or stay in an idle, neutral responsible position.

Human beings are individuals and at the same time social creatures.

As individuals, every adult is a sovereign - no body can rule over him without his consent.

As social creatures, human beings enter into intimate relationship with those that they have the same understanding and aspirations of life.

A true community is a community of people held together by intimate love.

There is no community without a direction and leader. A true community have the same direction and can have a rational leader that is acceptable to all.

Why are people not allowed to form their nations at will or to belong or leave a nation at will?

Instead of people brought together by manipulation, while shouldn't we be thinking of nations made up of like minds?

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Do not oppress and do not allow yourself to be oppressed

That sounds good and vaguely familiar... very vague.

Yeah, I know it's vague. I didn't think anyone would want me to throw out the details, but I could try if I get some time. My biggest problem is that I wonder if America has moved too far away from the idea to be able to acheive it, though.

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When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
-Thomas Jefferson

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-Samuel Adams]