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The Origins of Democracy
The essence of democracy itself is to transform the majority from a simple count of military strength into a percent into a signal of morality right. This specific form is the thing that has come to sort of define what democracy is if we look at what democracy is as a political project though. Some of the early founders like very explicitly this was their argument against maybe very specific anti-democratic arguments against giving anyone who didn't have property in the vote.