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¿Por qué se oponían tanto a la democracia? La democracia viene de la palabra griega ''demos'', para “el pueblo”. Esto implica una regla basada en las decisiones de la mayoría con la plena participación de todas las personas. | |||
Whereas this sounds enchantingly fair and sensibly practical, the system has never worked. It didn’t work in the Greek city-states, and this our forebears knew. A pure democracy is unwieldy—250 million people cannot govern themselves. How can millions of people vote on everything and every issue, or even inform themselves sufficiently to cast the proper vote? | Whereas this sounds enchantingly fair and sensibly practical, the system has never worked. It didn’t work in the Greek city-states, and this our forebears knew. A pure democracy is unwieldy—250 million people cannot govern themselves. How can millions of people vote on everything and every issue, or even inform themselves sufficiently to cast the proper vote? | ||