The form of government that would please me over any other is called arithmocracy which is government by simple majority. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.mycopper.net/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=4&TopicID=13525&PagePosition=1]
N. - condition of having a superior intellect arithmocracy. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
Remember always that Democracy means a government not merely by numbers of isolated individuals, but by a Demos -- by men accustomed to live in Demoi, or corporate bodies, and accustomed, therefore, to the self-control, obedience to law, and self-sacrificing public spirit, without which a corporate body cannot exist: but that a "democracy" of mere numbers is no democracy, but a mere brute "arithmocracy," which is certain to degenerate into an. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
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