antagon
The Man
- Dec 6, 2009
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The United States is not a democracy, it is a Republic. We elect representatives who vote on behalf of the people from their state or district. If our elected officials don't represent us as we wish, we can vote them out and replace them with someone who will. In a dictatorship, a tyrant rules over all.
a rep democracy is still a democracy.
We dont live in a democracy antagon. We live in a constitutional republic. Our founders knew that a democracy can stifle liberty hence them not making it one.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on whats for dinner, liberty is a well armed lamb contesting that outcome -benjamin franklin
your 'constitutional republic' definition fails to account for what democracy is at play in the republic by virtue of the constitution. thereby, it mutually a constitutional representative democracy, implicit of being a republic because it has a constitution. a republic chartered inferior to our own could stifle liberty as well. liberty isn't protected by virtue of the form of government, but by the bases of it's charter, i'd argue.