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Democracy not system of governance invented by the Greeks, and developed by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, but is in fact “the gift of God to all of humanity,” new findings reveal.

Colorado Springs, CO—Researchers at the Center for International Relations at Colorado University published the results of a nearly two-year study this week. 

The study, which was undertaken by the Political Science and Socioeconomic Relation’s Senior Fellow Samuel Penningsworth, as well as Tracy Dundle of the International Institute of Higher Learning.  Jack Rebat, Chair of the School for Economic and Social Statistical Studies at the Center for Sociological and Geographical Engineering, Training, and Resource Development for International Issues and Perspectives in New Detroit, Illinois, set out to evaluate the validity of Penningsworth and Dundle’s findings. Rebat, in a statement issued on Monday, looked with some reservation on the new findings, suggesting that “Democracy” is a system of popular autocratic governance that arose from the Poleis of Greece, which were centralized areas that could be retreated to and defended by local farmers, craftsmen, and caravan-traders in the event of sudden onslaught by Persian, Mede, or Assyrian marauders, out of which grew citizen-ruled city-states,

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and was, after a brief drop in popularity, revived by Enlightenment philosophers Machiavelli and Hobbes, with some further modifications added by Montesquieu, Rousseau, Locke, Madison, and Jefferson. 

“Bullshit,” replied Dundle, when pressed on the discrepancies between the wide acceptance of the traditional schools of thought vis-à-vis democratic etiology and other, lesser known, theories that attempt to explain the nature, origin, and development of democratic rule. This whole entire notion that holds the beginnings, intrinsic goodness, and internal logic inherent within the idea of ‘democracy,’ as popularly held, is just not true,” he said.

Rebot responded by pointing out that “Traditional data suggest that nearly two and a half millennia of social evolution, throughout which the paradigmatic bases of democratic exigency fluoresced, has, at great personal cost to countless philosophers, scholars, peasants, and visionaries been refined into the most humane social modality by which human populations are civilly organized, and is, furthermore, historically incontrovertible.  The extent texts from every century since Cicero all point up these developments.” 

“Wrong,” Dundle rebutted, “again, secular histories would probably lead one to these conclusions, but the true origins of democracy are from God.  God says in Romans 13 “Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God, my emphasis” added Dundle. “It is clear from this passage that God invented, and established, modern democratic government.”  This research, funded by a generous grant from the Faith-Based Initiatives Council, set up by the Bush Administration in 2003, following the beginning of the Liberation of Iraq, was conducted over a period of 2 grueling three-hour sessions, one in 2003, and another following in late 2004. “These findings represent a sea-change in the traditional histories of the rise and philosophies surrounding democratic sovereignty,” Penningsworth concluded.

When pressed for further comment, Rabat said that he had given up.