Why does everyone keep referring to the American Government as a democracy? As far as I can remember, we have been a republic who elects representatives to represent us in DC. If anything has changed since 1776, please advise me.
Ted said:No wonder that elections in the US are such a spectacle. I wonder what it looks like when a Republic drops by to cast a vote.... ?
that made we wonder what your government is. You talk about votes, one man one vote if I recall correctly. How can you say your a republic and not a democracy. We have a one man one vote principal overhere as well, but we are a constitutional monarchy. In my opinion the abstract level of republic and democracy are non-compatible. First you decide whether the common man has a say ( demos = people) then you choose the structure on how you want to run your nation, be it king or president.Why does everyone keep referring to the American Government as a democracy?
Ted said:Well you made it sound like the republic votes for itself. Like it is a living thing going to the ballot. Who chooses the president and doesn't "We the people" mean the all free man have a say in the business of your country? Isn't that democracy at work?
It was this quote:that made we wonder what your government is. You talk about votes, one man one vote if I recall correctly. How can you say your a republic and not a democracy. We have a one man one vote principal overhere as well, but we are a constitutional monarchy. In my opinion the abstract level of republic and democracy are non-compatible. First you decide whether the common man has a say ( demos = people) then you choose the structure on how you want to run your nation, be it king or president.Why does everyone keep referring to the American Government as a democracy?
Why does everyone keep referring to the American Government as a democracy? As far as I can remember, we have been a republic who elects representatives to represent us in DC. If anything has changed since 1776, please advise me.
http://www.wealth4freedom.com/Republic.html
Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They made a very marked distinction between a republic and democracy ... and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had created a republic.
U.S. Army Training Manual TM2000-05, 1928
Democracy, n. "A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy."
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/republic1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit <the French Fourth Republic>
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/democracy1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
bulldogg said:As previously stated and from the definitions above one can see that the US government was and still is a democratic republic.
Karl Marx of communist fame stated that a constitutional republic is a protective legal framework for what he considered to be "capitalist exploitation." He says: "All the bourgeois economists are aware of is that production can be carried on better under the modern police than e.g. on the principle of might makes right. They forget only that this principle is also a legal relation, and that the right of the stronger prevails in their 'constitutional republics' as well, only in another form."
You know what is strange... I cannot find a single report on the Congressional Approval Rating. What's more amazing about it is that the current Democratic Party Controlled Congress is that their approval rating is around 30%.... Yup, about 30% agrees with them.
What is more amazinf about it is that the Drive By Media will not report about the Congressional Approval Rating. Why, because they are the lap dog of the current US Democrat Liberal Defeatist Party!
The US Constitution stated that each state legislature selected their senators. Each state is allowed to senators. But senators have been directly elected since the ratification of the 17th Amendment in 1913.
The United States of America is a Constitutional Republic not a Democracy. When will people remember that.
When people release that they can vote for what they want then the government and society as a whole is destoryed. That is the main issue of a democracy. Which is why our founding father knew that the USA needed to be a Constitutional Republic and not a Democracy.
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