User blog comment:Bovell/We stand with Wikimedia - Stop PROTECT IP and SOPA/@comment-124.186.112.193-20111123101052/@comment-118.209.242.15-20111208140903

For a population of <5,000 people, democracy can work fine it even worked for some larger nations such as the polis of Athens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy; http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy). Only when the Romans turned it Representative Democracy did it stop working (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy; http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect_democracy).