Yes. I think the original advocates of democracy assumed that it would be restricted to the wealthy, who, for the worst of reason admittedly, had the time to give serious thought to affairs of state, and their writings often reflect this. I'm sure that some of them would be against universal suffrage; they would consider it to be, if you'll forgive me shoe-horning English into Greek, mobocracy. (The correct Greek would probably be democracy, so I can't really use that.)
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Date: 2010-01-13 08:27 pm (UTC)