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update the us army democracy excerpt to more closely

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@ -3112,15 +3112,18 @@ Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people
are right more than half of the time.
-- E. B. White
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Democracy, n.:
A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass
meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
Democracy:
A government of the masses.
Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of
"direct" expression.
Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property
rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall
regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion,
prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
-- U.S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932),
Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
-- U.S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928),
since withdrawn.
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Demographic polls show that you have lost credibility across the