From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 27 13:18:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from please.getaclue.net (please.getaclue.net [198.88.88.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7584037B401 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:18:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dever by please.getaclue.net with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 17Nfp4-000PhQ-00; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:24:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 16:24:58 -0400 From: "Douglas A. Dever" To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Terry Lambert , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [OT] Re: Fact Message-ID: <20020627162458.D97725@getaclue.net> Reply-To: dever@getaclue.net References: <5.1.1.6.2.20020625121305.03d1f270@pop3s.schulte.org> <20020625120402.A7861@cygnus.wks.Gallup.cia-g.com> <00d201c21cbd$3b9ff2d0$1ba8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> <20020626122805.GA18636@energyhq.homeip.net> <008501c21d1f$d82e4d60$b46dc5cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> <5.1.0.14.0.20020626121706.00b14d58@mail.richardh.wsonline.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020626131021.00afddb8@mail.richardh.wsonline.net> <3D1A5651.3EBD7B44@mindspring.com> <20020627220247.A37273@lpt.ens.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020627220247.A37273@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@online.fr on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:02:47PM +0200 X-No-Archive: yes Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Previously, Rahul Siddharthan (rsidd@online.fr) wrote: > Terry Lambert said on Jun 26, 2002 at 17:03:29: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Unlike the US, India has a democratically elected government. > > > > India's Prime Minister is elected by direct popular voting? > > As an MP, he is, from a constituency. The parliament (lower house) is > elected directly, and the PM is chosen indirectly from the MPs, and > must command the confidence of the lower house (more or less the > British system). > > But in India, the Supreme Court doesn't come into the picture at all... > So? Who says the United States is a democracy? Only the ignorant and illiterate. By definition, the US is a Republic, governed by a rule of law, not people. (The example above is a rather complicated process of federalism, where each state is responsible for handling its own elections, and providing a body of members to serve in the electoral college, which then actually "elects" the president.) I'm not going to go into if I think the Supreme Court had any legitimate jurisdiction in a Florida matter or not - but the bottom line here is, if you're going to take cheap shots at a government, at least know what type of government it is. -- Douglas A. Dever dever@getaclue.net http://www.getaclue.net/news/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message