Democracy vs a Republic Perfectly Explained For Dummies

[j-mac]

Here’s how it works: in democratic or republican systems, there is a kind of majority rule. In democracies, the 51% rules over the 49% and has total control. The 51% can do whatever it wants, because in democracies there are not structures in place to protect individual rights. If 51% vote to steal your bike, you are without a bike. If 51% vote to kill you, you are out of a life. It does not matter if it is right or not, what the majority says is what happens.
A republic is different though, and it operates for the protection of the individual against the majority when they get out of control. It is very important to protect the rights of the individual in a political system, for that is how governments are limited in their power and scope.

Democracies provide arbitrary power to governments, giving them prerogative to do anything as long as “it’s what the people want.” In a free society, this is unacceptable. Democracy vs a Republic Perfectly Explained For Dummies

The main reason the recent push to call America a "Democracy" is to open the path by progressives to hand over ultimate power to them to decide what rights you have....We are NOT a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic.

 

[kyzr]

"...if we can keep it"

 

[Votto]

The main reason the recent push to call America a "Democracy" is to open the path by progressives to hand over ultimate power to them to decide what rights you have....We are NOT a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic.

Trying to keep your Republic, eh?

What a Regressive

Folks that control things now seem to be doing a swell job.

Why do you want to turn back the clock?

Say, does anyone have any gas money they can let me borrow?

 

[rightwinger]

The main reason the recent push to call America a "Democracy" is to open the path by progressives to hand over ultimate power to them to decide what rights you have....We are NOT a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic.

A Republic is a form of Democracy
People vote for their leaders

No nation operates on pure Democracy

 

[dblack]

A Republic is a form of Democracy
People vote for their leaders

No nation operates on pure Democracy

Yet Democrats don't understand why. They want more democracy.

 

[rightwinger]

Definition of DEMOCRACY

government by the people; especially : rule of the majority; 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… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

Definition of democracy​

1a: government by the peopleespecially : rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vestedin the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2: a political unit that has a democratic government
3

 

[j-mac]

Definition of DEMOCRACY

government by the people; especially : rule of the majority; 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… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

Definition of democracy​

1a: government by the peopleespecially : rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vestedin the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2: a political unit that has a democratic government
3

Why do you suppose the founders settled on a republic rather than a democracy?

 

[rightwinger]

Why do you suppose the founders settled on a republic rather than a democracy?

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for Supper

 

[j-mac]

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for Supper

Not going to play games here….please try to answer my question like you have brain cells please.

 

[rightwinger]

Not going to play games here….please try to answer my question like you have brain cells please.

You got your answer

 

[j-mac]

You got your answer

Childish as it was.

 

[dudmuck]

The main reason the recent push to call America a "Democracy" is to open the path by progressives to hand over ultimate power to them to decide what rights you have....We are NOT a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic.

 

[Lesh]

The main reason the recent push to call America a "Democracy" is to open the path by progressives to hand over ultimate power to them to decide what rights you have....We are NOT a Democracy, we are a Constitutional Republic.

I’ve been told my whole life that America is a Democracy

The reason for the recent push to claim that it’s not… it’s a Republic is to justify minority rule

 

[Lesh]

Definition of DEMOCRACY

government by the people; especially : rule of the majority; 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… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

Definition of democracy​

1a: government by the peopleespecially : rule of the majority
b: a government in which the supreme power is vestedin the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
2: a political unit that has a democratic government
3

And the Founders (notably Madison) said that the majority should set policy… not the minority

 

[BackAgain]

A Republic is a form of Democracy
People vote for their leaders

No nation operates on pure Democracy

No. A republic has at most a very limited kinship with a democracy. Other than that, of course, Leftwhiner, you’re quite fully wrong again. The OP explains it vastly better than your simplistic misunderstanding can handle.

 

[Lesh]

No. A republic has at most a very limited kinship with a democracy. Other than that, of course, Leftwhiner, you’re quite fully wrong again. The OP explains it vastly better than your simplistic misunderstanding can handle.

Limited your ass.

Show us where you got that from and keep your pants on because we don’t want to see the nether regions you pulled it out of

 

[BackAgain]

Limited your ass.

Show us where you got that from and keep your pants on because we don’t want to see the nether regions you pulled it out of

No no. Very limited. Very very limited.

Your ignorance is as funny as your grasp on persuasion is lacking.

Please reread the OP. Then, delve into history. Spend some time trying to get a handle on the Federalist papers and the writings of our Framers.

When Benjamin Franklin was asked at the end of the Constitutional convention what they had given us (the American people), he famously replied “a republic ma’am, if you can keep it.”

He knew far more than you do. And they chose a republic as opposed to a democracy for many reasons, some of which were crucial. Amongst those reasons was a pronounced mistrust of democracy.

Easily observed, if you’d care to try to think logically and honestly — for once. If you wanted to pass a law today and could get a majority of your fellow citizens to vote with you to shut down Fox News, you couldn’t do it. The majority doesn’t rule.

Similarly, if you or some other fascist in the Democrap Party saw fit to deny the Hispanic citizens their right to vote, even if you got a majority to say “yes!”, You’d lose. Again, the majority doesn’t rule. Why not? Because we aren’t a democracy. We are a Constitutional republic.

Stop looking at my body, by the way, you creepy vermin pervert. “No” means “no,” you bitch.

 

[rightwinger]

No. A republic has at most a very limited kinship with a democracy. Other than that, of course, Leftwhiner, you’re quite fully wrong again. The OP explains it vastly better than your simplistic misunderstanding can handle.

A Republic is an implementation of Democracy
No nation on earth operates as a Democracy

 

[BackAgain]

A Republic is an implementation of Democracy
No nation on earth operates as a Democracy

A republic is an implementation of an alternative to a democracy. No nation on Earth operates as a pure “theory” of government no matter what that theory might be. We do make use of a diluted form of democracy for our republic, a representative version but that’s not at all the same as is “being” a democracy. We have too many intentional impediments for us to be ANYTHING closer to a democracy.

Our Constitutional republic, sure as sunshine, isn’t a “democracy.” By very studious design, it is quite removed from that theory of government.

 

[rightwinger]

A republic is an implementation of an alternative to a democracy. No nation on Earth operates as a pure “theory” of government no matter what that theory might be. We do make use of a diluted form of democracy for our republic, a representative version but that’s not at all the same as is “being” a democracy. We have too many intentional impediments for us to be ANYTHING closer to a democracy.

Our Constitutional republic, sure as sunshine, isn’t a “democracy.” By very studious design, it is quite removed from that theory of government.

A Republic is an implementation of Democracy where people vote for Representatives not directly.

There is no such thing as a true Democracy anywhere