What is your favorite form of government?

[Gop guy]

I wasn't sure where to post this, here, or in the Political Races thread. Anyway, mine is constitutional monarchy.

 

[DKSuddeth]

My favorite would be an empire, with me as the emporer

 

[nycflasher]

Originally posted by DKSuddeth
My favorite would be an empire, with me as the emporer

Uh-huh. For what it's worth, I AM the ruler of my domain.

 

[NewGuy]

Originally posted by nycflasher
Uh-huh. For what it's worth, I AM the ruler of my domain.

-I have 2 domains, but then my network is rather small.

I prefer what we (are supposed to) have....A Constitutional Republic.

 

[acludem]

Our form of government is more properly termed a representative democracy. I think our government works pretty well. I also like the British style parliamentary system, which is within a Constitutional monarchy.

acludem

 

[NewGuy]

Originally posted by acludem
Our form of government is more properly termed a representative democracy. I think our government works pretty well. I also like the British style parliamentary system, which is within a Constitutional monarchy.

acludem

I don't care what you would prefer it called, but our founding documents CLEARLY call it a republic.

It is a republic ruled by a ....What?

-Constitution.

To say otherwise is an outright lie and distorts the very nature of our government.

YOUR term would be to soften up peoples minds to more readily accept "democracy" as a term used by socialists to subvert our government because people do not know what we have.

The very use of your term makes me rather angry, and it insults every American alive and dead.

 

[acludem]

Being a political science student....well call it whatever you want. It's all the same thing. However we DO live in a representative democracy. Have you ever voted on state or local ballot proposition? This is direct democracy. Our government is a republic in one sense, and a democracy in another sense. It's a little of both - that's its genius.

acludem

 

[Moi]

The one I pledge alegience to- the good ole USA. Otherwise I wouldn't be here.

 

[nycflasher]

Originally posted by Moi
The one I pledge alegience to- the good ole USA. Otherwise I wouldn't be here.

Good answer.
I'm assuming most of us feel the same way.
Or perhaps some just see our government as the next best thing to the one they prefer.

 

[Avatar4321]

My favorite form of government is the one that leaves me alone to live my faith as i see fit.

 

[nycflasher]

Originally posted by Avatar4321
My favorite form of government is the one that leaves me alone to live my faith as i see fit.

And that's the tenet our government was founded on. Why then do people want to force there religion on others?

 

[Avatar4321]

Originally posted by nycflasher
And that's the tenet our government was founded on. Why then do people want to force there religion on others?

I have no idea why Secularists are trying to force their religion on people. Ask them.

 

[Moi]

Originally posted by nycflasher
And that's the tenet our government was founded on. Why then do people want to force there religion on others?

Seems to me that everyone wants to force something on someone. Why do I have to support welfare? Medicaid? Planned Parenthood? Rapists/murders/child molesters?

Makes no sense to ask why one specific group forces their beliefs...everyone does it and the other side suffers.

You take the good with the bad and hope to hell you wake up tomorrow.

 

[Avatar4321]

Originally posted by Moi
Seems to me that everyone wants to force something on someone. Why do I have to support welfare? Medicaid? Planned Parenthood? Rapists/murders/child molesters?

Makes no sense to ask why one specific group forces their beliefs...everyone does it and the other side suffers.

You take the good with the bad and hope to hell you wake up tomorrow.

I agree. Why should i be forced to help pay for medicare and prescription drugs for Bill Gates? Cant he afford it himself?

The whole point of Democracy is to the rule of the majority. if the majority wants to pass a law that say bans abortion, they shouldnt be forced not to. When a minority group forces anything on a majority we are no long living in a Democracy, Because Democracy is a government of and by the people. If a minority group forces its will on the majority we have what we call a tyranny.

(BTW just to point out we do living in a Democratic Republic. Its a combination. Though i think its more republic)

 

[nycflasher]

Originally posted by Moi
Seems to me that everyone wants to force something on someone. Why do I have to support welfare? Medicaid? Planned Parenthood? Rapists/murders/child molesters?

Makes no sense to ask why one specific group forces their beliefs...everyone does it and the other side suffers.

You take the good with the bad and hope to hell you wake up tomorrow.

I guess I was thinking of government forcing religion on people.
Do you think it does?

 

[Moi]

Originally posted by nycflasher
I guess I was thinking of government forcing religion on people.
Do you think it does?

The government is nothing more than the will of the people. Ergo, it is People who force us to follow some rule. There are many laws in this country founded in morality- with the exception of but one, I cannot think of a single one which isn't.

So, do I think that we are forced to endure religion...no. I do not think that morality and religion are inextricably linked. I am an atheist and do not practice any religion. Yet I believe in morality.

 

[insein]

re·pub·lic ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-pblk)
n.

A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
A nation that has such a political order.

A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
A nation that has such a political order.


Sounds basically like what we are.

 

[nycflasher]

Originally posted by insein
re·pub·lic ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-pblk)
n. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
A nation that has such a political order.
A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
A nation that has such a political order.
Sounds basically like what we are.

Yes, that's exactly what the U.S.A. is. We are also a representative democracy, which is closely related to a direct democracy.

"The traditional, and to many still compelling, objection to direct democracy as a form of government is that it is open to demagoguery. It is for this reason that the United States was established as, in the terminology used at the time , a "republic" rather than a "democracy". Thus Benjamin Franklin's famous answer, to the question as to what sort of government the "Founding Fathers" had established, was: "A Republic, if you can keep it.""
source

 

[acludem]

The truth is our founders created an entirely new form of government. They sought to combine elements of the British system, with ideas from Native American tribal governments, and the philosophies of John Locke, and others.

Democracy in the days of our nation's founding was a dirty word. It was equated with anarchy. That is why the electoral college was in the Constitution.

acludem

 

[rtwngAvngr]

Pure democracy is a dirty word. Democracy is worthless without a constitution protecting INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS.