By Paul Eidelberg

An organic principle of democracy is equality. This principle entails the political principle of “one-adult-one-vote.”  The political principle of one-adult-one vote is irrational and immoral, since it mandates equal votes to intelligent and idiotic citizens, as well as to patriotic and unpatriotic citizens.

The irrationality of democracy was well understood by Plato, as may be seen in Book VIII of his greatest dialogue, The Republic.

The Greek and Roman, as well as the medieval, philosophers scorned democracy as a bad or unjust form of government.

Democracy did not obtain a good reputation from philosophers until Machiavelli, the father of modern political science. Machiavelli initiated a Copernican revolution in his masterpiece, The Prince, the most influential text in the political science departments of the democratic world, including Israel.

Machiavelli’s Copernican revolution is profoundly elucidated by Professor Leo Strauss, and is outlined in my book A Jewish Philosophy of History.

Comment by Centinel2012. When one studies the  US Constitution one finds that the founders realized this and did not create a Democracy but a Republic with limited vote not universal vote. Democracies to not last long for the reasons Paul talks about in the first paragraph. By limiting the vote to land owners initially the founders tried to prevent the destruction of what they created. Since land ownership was not an impediment to the average person the ability to vote was larger in America then elsewhere but still not to the point the politicians could manipulate the vote. That came much later mostly after 1913 the 17th amendment however the 19th amendment is an exception although an amendment was not technically needed to achieve the result.