Quote Originally Posted by LOC NAR on probation
Sometimes the needs of the few or the one outwiegh the needs of the many. Captain James T. Kirk.

We in the US are a republic not a demacracy. It is ALL about the ONE.
Many ones make a majority and that rules. Rome was a republic.

With out free thinking individuals we would not be aloud to have this conversation.
Amen, technically each state was intended to be it's own individual republic. The states created the federal government and gave it limited powers. Ultimately the little republics should be allowed the Big republic, unfortunately the states keep losing powers while the Feds keep seizing it.
JaggedEdge Reviewed by JaggedEdge on . are we to be free? with all the talk of socialism in america and the growing governmental control over our relatively free marketplace, i feel the need to ask those of you on these boards a rather basic question. is the individual an important component of american political philosophy or is the will of the people of paramount concern? this country has always led the world in its pursuit of the rights of the individual, understanding that the price we pay for those rights is a tumultuous life at best. as Rating: 5