02-20-2008, 06:28 AM
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Re: Sharia or Democracy?
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Originally Posted by Variable
I haven't heard of any existing democracy that works like that...
You still need to form a majority government, and the less votes you have, the less power you have to act. And typically systems that run on proportional representation go through leaders like laundry (i.e. Israel). And then of course what MuslimZ mentioned, rights for the minority.
How you seem to picture it really isn't how it works.
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Actually, it really is how it works. At least that's how it works in the UK. I thought Canada had a similar system to ours.
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