Democracy Is Not Political Morality     A government that
upholds that morality is a politically moral government. Nearly
all of human history is characterized by governments that
instead chose amoral rule by a ruling class over a general
population of serfs. The Founders of the United States took an
honest look at morality, spelled it out then worked to build a
political system that would limit the power of government to
stray from it.  The Declaration of Independence states:   We all
know when we have been personally wronged. If someone commits
the amoral act of trying to harm us, to kill us, to rob us, to
steal our earnings or to bully us into silence when they don’t
like what we are saying, we know they are doing us wrong. Every
healthy creature will defend itself against someone trying to do
such harms.  But what happens when an individual is set upon by
superior numbers trying to do him wrong? That is democracy, in
which superior numbers have an assumed authority to wrong
someone just because there are