Do you think that history shows that non-virtuious people and democracy have existed together in the same society !!! If so when ???
2007-11-13 05:00:18 · 7 answers · asked by rapturefuture 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no then we need a handbasket..:-)
2007-11-13 05:05:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our founders didn't believe so...
“[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen onto any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.” — Samuel Adams
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader... If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.” — Samuel Adams
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams
“Let them revere nothing but Religion, Morality, and Liberty... Religion and Virtue are the only foundations, not only of republicanism and of all free governments, but of social felicity under all governments and in all the combinations of human society.” — John Adams
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.” — John Adams
2007-11-13 13:09:33 · answer #2 · answered by whitehorse456 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it can't. Why? It takes a morally strong society for a democracy to flourish. It takes people devoted to God for it to work.
Democracy is a form of government where people govern themselves. It takes a properly formed moral conscious for this. Without it, no one will care who does what to whom. The absence of morality leads to a free-for-all. The chaos forces the government to pass more controlling laws to regain the same control that people previously exercised over themselves. We call this legalistic government socialism, which is what immorality leads to.
2007-11-13 13:10:14 · answer #3 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hmmm. I find that to be an uncormfortable choice of words - remember Saudi Arabia's infamous "Vice & Virtue" police?
2007-11-13 13:06:38 · answer #4 · answered by James Melton 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aristotillian Virtue, or Christian Virtue?
2007-11-13 13:06:31 · answer #5 · answered by Skalite 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What's your definition of "virtue"?
2007-11-13 13:03:22 · answer #6 · answered by catrionn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will perish !
2007-11-13 13:05:53 · answer #7 · answered by shree 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋