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That's a joke. Name me one democratic government that voted a race of people into slavery?
by mempko 13y ago
That's a joke. Name me one democratic government that voted a race of people into slavery?
- nickff 13y agoI said "slavery or imprisonment of one race or another", and I believe the three examples below are all debatable, as to which they exemplify. Thirteen Colonies, 1705 Wood, Origins of American Slavery (1997), p. 92. "In 1705, almost exactly a century after the first colonists had set foot in Jamestown, the House of Burgesses codified and systematized Virginia's laws of slavery. These laws would be modified and added to over the next century and a half, but the essential legal framework within which the institution of slavery would subsequently operate had been put in place." Germany, 1933 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_1933 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_federal_election,_March_... South Africa, 1948 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_general_election,_1948 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_general_election,...
- mempko 13y agoOf course you realize these kinds of governments are labelled republics right? Ironically to prevent "the majority abusing the minority." So again, where is democracy involved here? In other words I had a trick question. You first have to ask what democracy is before you can even approach it....