> ... I don't see how any of these individual things are proven to be true. 'Let the experiment be made.' -- Benjamin Franklin That is to say democracy is, or

> ... I don't see how any of these individual things are proven to be true. 'Let the experiment be made.' -- Benjamin Franklin That is to say democracy is, or ought to be, at its essence all about discovering, through experience, which institutions best serve the common good. "Laboratories of democracy" is another phrase that comes to mind.