>>> Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk 08/22/01 03:31AM >>>
In message <20010815213611.C383 at niji.or.jp>, jean-christophe helary
<helary at niji.or.jp> writes
>btw, does really _everybody_ in the us believe that f-o-s is the sine qua non
>condition of 'true' democracy (maybe i am making this up ?).
Freedom of speech *is* the sine qua non for democracy; it is not a 'belief'.
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CB: No, popular sovereignty is the necessary cause of democracy.
No society that is incapable of deliberating upon its own future could in any sense be called a democracy. No society that's deliberations were restricted could properly consider its own future.