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Government is not an averaging process. You cannot add oligarchy to mob rule, divide by two, and get a republic.
by Daniel_Newby 13y ago
Government is not an averaging process. You cannot add oligarchy to mob rule, divide by two, and get a republic.
- dragonwriter 13y agothat's a non-sequitur. "Republic" isn't the average of oligarchy and mob rule, or anywhere in between those. It's orthogonal to them. You certainly can have a system with strong elements of both that is a republic (as demonstrated by the essentially prototypical republic, that of Rome.) You seem, again, to be conflating what you like with what a Republic is.