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by dragonwriter 2431 days ago
> Some limitations on democracy are natural, others are imposed by those who established it. That doesn't mean it's not a democracy.

The second clearly does; government by the dead is incompatible with government by the governed, a point Thomas Jefferson is noted for addressing at some length: https://jeffersonpapers.princeton.edu/selected-documents/tho...