Re: Traveller Background 2

David Johnson writes:
> Un uh.  Look at the former Soviet states.  They have no tradition whatsoever
> of democractic principles.  The current Russian legislture, the Duma, is
> named for the *first* legislative advisory body established by the tsars,
> who were autocrats, which didn't have the clout of the British Parliament
> in Oliver Cromwell's day.  Democratic principles in Western European society
> go back hundreds of years and yet just two generations ago we were still
> *lynching* folks to keep them from voting here in the US!  The Imperium,
> whose roots were in yet another `empire', has been around for 1100 years.
> So I ask, where does the idea that `Jane Everybody' has just as much say as
> `Peter Plutocrat' come from?

	Hivers?

	Chris Bertani		[email removed]