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Thank you, Truthmatters! I read that years ago and had lost the link. An excellent rebuttal.
America: Republic or Democracy?
Thank you, Truthmatters! I read that years ago and had lost the link. An excellent rebuttal.
America: Republic or Democracy?
It isn't true! That's what the problem is, it isn't true.
A republic is government based on a charter, a written document. It has NOTHING to do with an elected government. The charter for the US is the Comstitution. This means that the written document cannot be voided by democracy or a democratic vote.
It is this kind of ignorance that means the end of the republic. It's not only that liberals are uneducated, they cannot be educated.
Yep. And why there is such a process as the Electoral College that so many on the left want to see go away...I know that. It is the morons like TruthMocker who don't get it. Having said that, we are a Republic. A true democracy is majority (or mob) rule. We do not have that, we have a Constitutional Republic - protecting minorities from mob rule.
Why does the PUBLIC SCHOOLS continually LIE about the meaning of the word Democracy?
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It isn't true! That's what the problem is, it isn't true.
A republic is government based on a charter, a written document. It has NOTHING to do with an elected government.
Incorrect on both counts. Governments that are not republics can also be based on a charter or written document. The best and most common example of a constitutional non-republic is a constitutional monarchy. And all republics do have elected governments, although some have restricted the constituency allowed an effective vote. A republic contrasts with a monarchy, dictatorship, or junta. A constitutional base is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for a government to be called a republic.
Republics with a broad-based constituency, especially universal suffrage, may be considered democratic republics. Republics with limited constituencies, such as the Roman Republic or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, should be called aristocratic republics.
The charter for the US is the Comstitution. This means that the written document cannot be voided by democracy or a democratic vote.
Also incorrect. There are two ways that the Constitution could be legally voided by democratic processes. First, the democratically-elected representatives in Congress could vote in a two-thirds majority to do so by Constitutional amendment. Second, the democratically-elected state legislatures could vote to create a new Constitutional convention which could do so. Upon that amendment abolishing the Constitution (and, one imagines, putting forth a replacement) being ratified by three-fourths of the democratically-elected state legislatures, it would take effect.
Again: the dichotomy advanced between republic and democracy is a false one. A republic that is not democratic is an aristocratic republic. Those who insist on saying "we have a republic, not a democracy" are affirming their support for aristocracy.
Thank you, Truthmatters! I read that years ago and had lost the link. An excellent rebuttal.
America: Republic or Democracy?
It isn't true! That's what the problem is, it isn't true.
A republic is government based on a charter, a written document. It has NOTHING to do with an elected government. The charter for the US is the Comstitution. This means that the written document cannot be voided by democracy or a democratic vote.
It is this kind of ignorance that means the end of the republic. It's not only that liberals are uneducated, they cannot be educated.
OWS protesters get pepper sprayed for breaking the law and are hailed as heroes. In syria, protesters call for revolution to overthrow a government that is the kind OWS is calling for, many get shot and killed by the government, and die anonymously. You people have no idea the type of horrific tyrannical government that your "revolution" will bring us. What gives YOU the right to choose how others live? Please disband and consider legal means of change, and while you are at it educate yourselves on what liberty really is...it is a government that secures liberty not a government that provides everything to a society of lazy degenerates. These OWSers, like the successful statist uprisings across the world have managed to do nothing to secure liberty, yet have secured tyranny in every country where the people demand free stuff.
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By definition, a republic is a political unit governed by a charter
while a democracy is a government whose prevailing force is always that of the majority.
Perhaps one of the difficulties in defining these two words democracy and republic stems from the fact that many people consider them to be synonyms, which they arent. They are no more alike than an apple and a banana, and yet they are often used interchangeably.
Again: the dichotomy advanced between republic and democracy is a false one. A republic that is not democratic is an aristocratic republic. Those who insist on saying "we have a republic, not a democracy" are affirming their support for aristocracy.
We have protection for minorities in our system.
Your comment is naive. There was little other work, and when they tried to negotiate on their own terms, the Pinkertons were called in.
We're a representative democracy. As individuals have gained more political power, conservatives have protested against and sought to thwart that increase of power.
These people have no clue of their own history. I live near the Coal Regions of Central Pennsylvania... I know about the Pinkertons and the worker's counter... the Molly Maguires.
They were the start of Unions and organized labor.... both sides had their thugs and let me tell you something.... what these spoiled people call thuggery these days is pure diplomacy as compared to what ended the Robber Baron days of America... it was bloody as hell.
But they don't teach that part of History in what the righties call "left wing" education... they get the glossed over rendition that makes people like Carnegie, Rockefeller and JP Morgan look like saints.
That's the problem with the right wing. They are offered a PG rated history, but reality was definitely NC-17.
The In Depth Truth is out there to be found, for those interested, both Right and Left. Now more so than ever before. You are painting False images.
That is absolutely the best link I've read in a long time. Thanks, Intense. Rep coming your way. (If I have one left)."I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The Pledge of Allegiance
Why does the PUBLIC SCHOOLS continually LIE about the meaning of the word Democracy?
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It's against the rules to alter someone's quotes asshole.
These people have no clue of their own history. I live near the Coal Regions of Central Pennsylvania... I know about the Pinkertons and the worker's counter... the Molly Maguires.
They were the start of Unions and organized labor.... both sides had their thugs and let me tell you something.... what these spoiled people call thuggery these days is pure diplomacy as compared to what ended the Robber Baron days of America... it was bloody as hell.
But they don't teach that part of History in what the righties call "left wing" education... they get the glossed over rendition that makes people like Carnegie, Rockefeller and JP Morgan look like saints.
That's the problem with the right wing. They are offered a PG rated history, but reality was definitely NC-17.
The In Depth Truth is out there to be found, for those interested, both Right and Left. Now more so than ever before. You are painting False images.
I am painting false images? Ok... So my grandmother, mother and father were lying to me then? Perhaps it's you that doesn't know the In Depth Truth.
Perhaps it's you that doesn't know the In Depth Truth.
That's the problem with the right wing. They are offered a PG rated history, but reality was definitely
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It's against the rules to alter someone's quotes asshole.
That is right. We do not Alter Quotes here. It is really poor form.
its only bannable if the intent was to deceive. Bolding, making bigger, and posting that you changed it is not being deceitful.
its only bannable if the intent was to deceive. Bolding, making bigger, and posting that you changed it is not being deceitful.
Remember the old axiom of 'being careful for what you wish for'? OWS crybabies had better let go of thier emotionalism lest they get something they didn't bargain for. A lesson the Germans failed to heed in the 1930's...Democracies give no power to minorities. Are some of you really this stupid about basic civics in regard to how we were founded and what the founders intentions were? We're a republic. There is no mob rule in this country. At least not yet.
What lessons did you learn from Wall Street destroying the American economy with a $516 trillion dollar derivatives Ponzi scheme?
OWS protesters get pepper sprayed for breaking the law and are hailed as heroes. In syria, protesters call for revolution to overthrow a government that is the kind OWS is calling for, many get shot and killed by the government, and die anonymously.
