RES: RES: Korea's blessing

[Brad De Long]

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>De: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>[mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]Em nome de Lisa & Ian Murray
>Enviada em: segunda-feira, 3 de julho de 2000 11:27
>Para: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>Assunto: Re: RES: Korea's blessing
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>>From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
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>How can you tell which governments are legitimate? It's pretty easy.
>Legitimate governments:
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>(a) derive their just powers from the consent of the governed...
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>(b) secure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for their citizens...
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>-So, let´s examine Castro´s Cuba.
>1-Derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
>-As the common citizen of Cuba is allowed to keep it´s rifle after
>-the military service, we can conclude that they agree with Castro´s
>-regimen, or Castro wouldn´t remain on power....

Minor details like freedom of assembly don't count? I would have 
thought that "consent of the governed was just a teeny weeny bit more 
subtle than that. Napoleon III ruled with Castro's kind of "consent 
of the governed," after all.

You're more sophisticated than that. You shouldn't be making these 
kinds of arguments...

Brad DeLong