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True or False: The United States of America is a democracy.
You among many millions have become too comfy into the incarnation of what Progressives gave us back in the early 1900's...what we are NOW is not what we were given.Thank you, everyone.
I better understand the fierce ideological opposition some have to calling the U.S. a democracy, even though I still don't share it.
The only thing that has changed from then to now is that what the Founders gave us has been basterdized into something unrecognizable from thier vision.obviously you didn't think that through or you didn't even bother to read it. It was never arguing with the constitution. It was telling the history of the word republic and what it meant, particularly at that time.
Other than that? The meaning doesn't change, and they'd be apalled.
You're assuming there was a single "vision". Like "original intent", I believe there was no such thing.
Section 4 - Republican government
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Read the Document...Read the Federalists...You belive wrong. You were ill-educated.The only thing that has changed from then to now is that what the Founders gave us has been basterdized into something unrecognizable from thier vision.obviously you didn't think that through or you didn't even bother to read it. It was never arguing with the constitution. It was telling the history of the word republic and what it meant, particularly at that time.
Other than that? The meaning doesn't change, and they'd be apalled.
You're assuming there was a single "vision". Like "original intent", I believe there was no such thing.
No, he's right. In fact, the Federalist gives a really distorted picture, in that two of its three authors (Hamilton and Madison) represented opposite sides on many of the conflicts of interest that were compromised into the Constitution. Madison was more in favor of democracy than Hamilton, who was more cynical and also more in favor of aristocracy. Yet you won't see that conflict come out in the Federalist. You have to dig a bit deeper into the careers and other writings of those two men and the others who took part in the Constitution debate.
There was no single vision. There was a great controversy, and the Constitution is a huge compromise among dissenting viewpoints.
de·moc·ra·cyThank you, everyone.
I better understand the fierce ideological opposition some have to calling the U.S. a democracy, even though I still don't share it.
de·moc·ra·cyThank you, everyone.
I better understand the fierce ideological opposition some have to calling the U.S. a democracy, even though I still don't share it.
   [dih-mok-ruh-see]
noun, plural -cies. 1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. -> Congress/Senate
2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies. -> Dictionary approves of the US being democratic on this point.
3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges. -> Bill of Rights and US Constitution
4. political or social equality; democratic spirit. ^As above.
5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power. -> Tick.
Origin:
152535; < Middle French démocratie < Late Latin dēmocratia < Greek dēmokratía popular government, equivalent to dēmo- demo- + -kratia -cracy
Democracy | Define Democracy at Dictionary.com'
They clearly have a fierce ideological hatred against the word, the dictionary clearly has to be rewritten to meet it. They can write a fierce email and complain about how 'unfair' it is, America has a democratic government, it is a republic however. Republic =/= A government without democracy, also the Founders =/= Unquestionable Gods.
A "representative republic" IS a democracy. But you're wrong, because:
That makes it NOT representative, and therefore not a democracy.
Obviously not -- I would call slavery oppression of a minority, wouldn't you? And how about the Trail of Tears?
When I say we're supposed to be a democracy, I mean now, not in 1789. The Constitution has been amended to make the system more democratic, and all states have dropped the property qualifications for voting; also, racial and gender bars to voting are now illegal.
We are supposed to be a (representative) democracy. Or in other words, a democratic republic.
Constitution =/= Political Science department, just because the Chinese Constitution says there is freedom of speech doesn't mean China has freedom of speech, likewise just because a document fails to mention a word or denies its a democracy doesn't make its claims true, its just a denial.de·moc·ra·cyThank you, everyone.
I better understand the fierce ideological opposition some have to calling the U.S. a democracy, even though I still don't share it.
   [dih-mok-ruh-see]
noun, plural -cies. 1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. -> Congress/Senate
2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies. -> Dictionary approves of the US being democratic on this point.
3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges. -> Bill of Rights and US Constitution
4. political or social equality; democratic spirit. ^As above.
5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power. -> Tick.
Origin:
1525–35; < Middle French démocratie < Late Latin dēmocratia < Greek dēmokratía popular government, equivalent to dēmo- demo- + -kratia -cracy
Democracy | Define Democracy at Dictionary.com'
They clearly have a fierce ideological hatred against the word, the dictionary clearly has to be rewritten to meet it. They can write a fierce email and complain about how 'unfair' it is, America has a democratic government, it is a republic however. Republic =/= A government without democracy, also the Founders =/= Unquestionable Gods.
Now show us in the Constitution where the word is used?
Don't bother. It isn't there numbskull.
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I'm not wrong. A representative republic is NOT a democracy because the majority does not rule... they do not polll people (especially back in the day) to decide how they should vote in congress. if they did, there would have been a very different result this week.
you can't impose current definitions on people who startes something more than 200 years ago.
blacks were not considered full people, much less a "minority".
by freedom from tyranny of the majority, i mean the court protects us from stupid stuff the executive and legislature do... such as if they were to say i was forced to say a christian prayer before school.
Those who favor republican government but are against democracy are, therefore, in favor of aristocracy. I am not.
Now show us in the Constitution where the word is used?
Don't bother. It isn't there numbskull.
Read the Document...Read the Federalists...You belive wrong. You were ill-educated.The only thing that has changed from then to now is that what the Founders gave us has been basterdized into something unrecognizable from thier vision.
Other than that? The meaning doesn't change, and they'd be apalled.
You're assuming there was a single "vision". Like "original intent", I believe there was no such thing.
Now show us in the Constitution where the word is used?
Don't bother. It isn't there numbskull.
Neither is "separation of church and state," but most of us know that's what's meant by the language of the First Amendment. And it's quite easy to show where the Constitution has language equivalent in meaning to democracy, and calls for democracy, even if it doesn't use that exact word:
"The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature."
Article II, Section 2 (emphasis added).
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years"
Amendment 17 (emphasis added).
"Elected by the people" or "chosen by the people" implies democracy.
de·moc·ra·cyThank you, everyone.
I better understand the fierce ideological opposition some have to calling the U.S. a democracy, even though I still don't share it.
   [dih-mok-ruh-see]
noun, plural -cies. 1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. -> Congress/Senate
2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies. -> Dictionary approves of the US being democratic on this point.
3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges. -> Bill of Rights and US Constitution
4. political or social equality; democratic spirit. ^As above.
5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power. -> Tick.
Origin:
152535; < Middle French démocratie < Late Latin dēmocratia < Greek dēmokratía popular government, equivalent to dēmo- demo- + -kratia -cracy
Democracy | Define Democracy at Dictionary.com'
They clearly have a fierce ideological hatred against the word, the dictionary clearly has to be rewritten to meet it. They can write a fierce email and complain about how 'unfair' it is, America has a democratic government, it is a republic however. Republic =/= A government without democracy, also the Founders =/= Unquestionable Gods.
Now show us in the Constitution where the word is used?
Don't bother. It isn't there numbskull.
Now show us in the Constitution where the word is used?
Don't bother. It isn't there numbskull.
Neither is "separation of church and state," but most of us know that's what's meant by the language of the First Amendment. And it's quite easy to show where the Constitution has language equivalent in meaning to democracy, and calls for democracy, even if it doesn't use that exact word:
"The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature."
Article II, Section 2 (emphasis added).
"The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years"
Amendment 17 (emphasis added).
"Elected by the people" or "chosen by the people" implies democracy.