"Strabo" wrote in message
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> In Re: SUPPORT USA AND END UP DEAD on Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:56:40
> GMT, by Bill McKee, we read:
>>> Whoah! You've already lost 90% of the audience! This is democracy,
>>> remember? The government and the people are one!
>>
>>It is not a Democracy! It is a Representative Republic.
>
> That's kind of redundant, i.e., republic = res publicae,
> which describes the condition of public ownership of
> the state through representation.
>
> Because the Republic is given legitimacy by the Constitution,
> it's known as a Constitutional Republic.
>
> The word democracy is not to be found in any founding
> material. The concept of democracy, well known to the
> Founders, was specifically negated.
>
> While we vote for nominees for certain local, state and federal
> offices, the conditions of office and the checks and balances
> attached to each office, prevents the attainment of a true or
> perfect democracy.
>
You're right, there isn't much about the United States that would qualify it
as a democracy. The concept of Democracy where all the citizens (demos) voted
on all the laws originated from the Greeks; the founding fathers of the
United States much more heavily favored the republic, i.e. elected
representatives making the laws as used by the Roman Republic, Senate and
all. KM
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