Show There Was A King Who Believed In Citizens Citizen's Rights To Vote In that time of not too long ago lived a aking aking aking king who ruled a nation of free and righteous people and believe it or dont don't every citizen voted on every problem After all the king used to say my subjects must take personal responsibility for their rights as well as their obligations The king ruled therefore with the loving consent of his subjects As must to all the king long died and the entire nation mourned But they rejoined too for they knew his only son would ascend the throne The apple does not fall far from the tree they told themselves As a prince he always obeyed his father He went to church regularly and studied in the most expensive schools and even went abroad to learn learn- more at the university He willbe will willbe willbe be a good king long like his father Good reason then to rejoice But the newly crowned king long had other ideas about ruling his subjects I am far superior and better educated than my people he told himself Why should they be allowed to vote I will vote for them After all I love them I will do what is best for them So he did But an aged philosopher friend of the former king came to court and complained about this best of all possible sible kinds lands of government Look about you good goodsir sir said the king Everyone is well fed clothed housed But nobody is free said the philosopher The king laughed You mean no body is fr fre free e to beg or to go hungry I mean corrected the philosopher that nobody is free to disagree with your new laws Why should anyone want to do that I have made this nation a model of efficiency What would happen if I disagreed with your majesty's efficiency Then poor fool that you are you would be sent to join my other misguided w subjects |