The radical changes to the Constitution I have spelled out in the document in the Files section is certainly not the only way we can progress toward a more...
In addition to making government more accountable to the people, a democracy requires that the people have direct access to methods of self-governance. That...
While accountability and access give us some degree of self-governance (that is, democracy), in order to call our nation a democracy, which means rule by the...
I have created a folder called Amendments wherein we can each place proposed amendments we would like to see to the Constitution. If you place a file in the...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the real-democracy group. File :...
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Feb 28, 2007 8:58 am
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Without going into the specifics of either proposal, with regard to the proposed amendment packages offered by PhoenixProjectPAC.us and RealDemocracy.com, I...
One thing I think we can all agree upon is that in order to make the United States a democracy, where the People are truly sovereign, and not ruled by a...
For those of you who I have not already told, I have also created a blog for this discussion at http://realdemocracy.wordpress.com. I have cross-posted some...
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Mar 1, 2007 9:20 am
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The new file I just added includes the Amendment Proposal I posted yesterday, and adds nine more proposals. By treating them as separate proposals, we create...
Rupert, if you don't mind, I would prefer that debate and discussion of this sort occur in the group rather than in personal emails, so that it will be...
March 1, 2007 I HAVE BEEN TRYING VERY HARD TO POST ON THE YAHOOGROUP REAL DEMOCRACY...............UNFORTUNATELY i WAS UNABLE TO. SO , PLEASE GO TO...
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Mar 2, 2007 2:51 am
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... *************************************************** No, democracy does not equal mob rule. That is a simplistic analysis based on the idea that democracy...
In an email conversation I am having outside the group, but in reference to it, I was asked what sort of policy agenda would I want to see advanced as a result...
Scott Trimble: The following revised Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is inclusive of concerns you expressed and concerns of my own; this Amendment is by my...
Hi Thomas, I'm glad you have decided to join us here. I had tried to start a dialog with you and your sister at the DFA blog, but it seemed that neither of...
Thanks to Thomas's objections, which were entirely valid, and which was something that was bothering me too, but I didn't do any investigation into how to fix...
Scott, Thank you for your reply to my question. May I suggest you present your personal political wishes in bullet form 1- 2- 3- etc......... It...
malahat bahreman
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Mar 3, 2007 6:46 pm
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Scott Thank you for your reply. It would be so nice if you could present your policy agenda in bullet form 1- 2- 3- etc AS YOU SAY IN YOUR SECOND PARAGRAPH...
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Mar 3, 2007 7:50 pm
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Member Alliance for America sent this to my email. I am posting it here on their behalf. ===================================================================== ...
I would prefer that this not become a forum for policy debate. There are already many other such groups. I understand that you feel that policy is important,...
A fine effort. From a quick reading, a quick comment: I see no reason to abolish the provinces ("states" as americans call them) or existing communities of any...
Hi CJ, Thanks for your comments. The revised constitution that establishes communities in place of states was little more than a first draft of my thoughts of...
... A legislature of 250 may or may not be the proper size, but the crux of Democracy is the Democracies themselves so I would hope to pay more attention to...
... any ... "theirs." **************************************************************** The way your post was formatted, it looked like this had been quoted ...
... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Just out of curiosity, where are you from? Are you engaged here or elsewhere for the...
"In my youth, I imagined a Convention but I gradually realized that a Convention would be composed of the same politicians who inhabit the Congress, like those...