Re: The Question is...
@chuckufarley
"An open democracy is they only way to avoid the tyranny that drove Thomas Jefferson's pen on so many occasions. "
Indeed, had that Champion of Freedom! been given the right to appeal to The People and poll his ideas, he might well have gathered enough support for his pet law of castrating gays and adulterers.
Alas. though, the American Revolution did not include manhood suffrage, nor yet womanhood suffrage, let alone blackhood suffrage, so he died too early.