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What's surprising to me is that people consider themselves conservatives and at the same time don't want their senators popularly elected.It is not surprising that conservatives want so badly for us not to be a democracy.
The popular election of senators is not a conservative idea. It's a progressive idea. The 17th amendment is a Progressive-Era amendment.What's surprising to me is that people consider themselves conservatives and at the same time don't want their senators popularly elected.It is not surprising that conservatives want so badly for us not to be a democracy.
What's surprising to me is that people consider themselves conservatives and at the same time don't want their senators popularly elected.It is not surprising that conservatives want so badly for us not to be a democracy.
They don't want that because they have a cockeyed notion that there is a conservative partisan advantage to the old way of electing Senators.
You can always trace a puzzling conservative 'principle' to some selfish ideological/partisan motive.
We the People is not democracy.Our whole system of government is based on We the people, but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
guess who
So what? Democratic principles and rights are enshrined in our Republic. At first the electorate was mostly white male property owners. Now it's every citizen over 18 mostly .
Reagan was always simplifying things.We the People is not democracy.Our whole system of government is based on We the people, but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong.
guess who
It did not change the function of the senate. If you want to see power taken from individuals, you are not a conservative.So what? Democratic principles and rights are enshrined in our Republic. At first the electorate was mostly white male property owners. Now it's every citizen over 18 mostly .
That's different, the majority of the people voting for the Representatives did not change the way the three branches operate. That was a good thing
Changing the vote from the State legislators to the people changed the way that the House, Senate and Presidency works.
So what? Democratic principles and rights are enshrined in our Republic. At first the electorate was mostly white male property owners. Now it's every citizen over 18 mostly .
That's different, the majority of the people voting for the Representatives did not change the way the three branches operate. That was a good thing
Changing the vote from the State legislators to the people changed the way that the House, Senate and Presidency works.
It did not change the function of the senate. If you want to see power taken from individuals, you are not a conservative.So what? Democratic principles and rights are enshrined in our Republic. At first the electorate was mostly white male property owners. Now it's every citizen over 18 mostly .
That's different, the majority of the people voting for the Representatives did not change the way the three branches operate. That was a good thing
Changing the vote from the State legislators to the people changed the way that the House, Senate and Presidency works.
So what? Democratic principles and rights are enshrined in our Republic. At first the electorate was mostly white male property owners. Now it's every citizen over 18 mostly .
That's different, the majority of the people voting for the Representatives did not change the way the three branches operate. That was a good thing
Changing the vote from the State legislators to the people changed the way that the House, Senate and Presidency works.
It was a good change, imo.
Perhaps you're just a little too slow to understand that democracy is one component of a constitutional republic......they are not mutually exclusive.
And there is a difference between "democracy" and "a democracy", but you're too busy insulting people to think of that.
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Feel free to provide historic examples of "a democracy".
Nope - athens was not a pure democracy either.
Ancient Greek Democracy - Ancient History - HISTORY.com
Perhaps you're just a little too slow to understand that democracy is one component of a constitutional republic......they are not mutually exclusive.
And there is a difference between "democracy" and "a democracy", but you're too busy insulting people to think of that.
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Feel free to provide historic examples of "a democracy".
athens
Nope - athens was not a pure democracy either.
Ancient Greek Democracy - Ancient History - HISTORY.com
athens WAS a democracy.
You know how those people got positions of power? Random drawings, And EVERY citizen was eligible.
If you're looking for an example of a government where every single decision was put to a general vote, well that's just stupid.
"America is a 'CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC,' not a Democracy..."
A fact most on the right fail to understand, with conservatives advocating nonsense about the majority deciding who will or will not have his civil rights, such as not allowing same-sex couples access to marriage law, or compelling a woman to give birth against her will.
And Nazis and Fascists were far right, your video doesn't change history. Right wing is defined as ultra conservative and reactionary....there is no controversy about that.
