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<`michael> If Socrates were to observe American government in theory and in action, I believe he would find elements of justice and elements of injustice. I make this tempered statement not because I wish to put platitudes to paper, but because there are shortcomings in a representative democracy, some of them designed, that serve to reduce the possibility that power will be abused. That “shortcomings” provide for a reduction of abuses may seem
<`michael> what the hell am i talking about
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