Posted on Apr 16, 2024
Terror Robespierre and the French Revolution
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Always an Interesting debate, Republicans always Argue We are Not a Democracy, Should "We" Have Taken the American Experiment to the Next Level Like the "Republic" of France? Like what Thomas Paine wanted, A Reasonable Discussion!
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Our Founding Fathers were so much smarter and insightful than these fools in France. Our Founding Fathers gave us a Constitutional Republic where people can live however they want as long as they don’t transgress against their brothers and sisters. Our current Progressive Democrats, RINOS, and Communists are passing unconstitutional laws giving classes of people more rights than what everyone is entitled to. If these fools are successful, they will make our country into a socialist state like Venezuela. Our only hope are judges that will rule strictly in accordance with our constitutional law and rights.
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LTC David Brown
I could not agree more. John Adams was brilliant and did a deep dive into governments and the history of governance. He read political thoughts on governance from ancient periods to the present. Adams read Roman and Greek manuscripts in the original Latin and Greek. They idea was to craft checks and balances to keep the government in check by limiting the power of government and by limiting people’s power by institutions like the electoral college and Senators being placed by state legislatures instead of direct elections. Of course Democrats chaff at these limitations and checks on their power.. Obama said the problem with the constitution was it was prohibitive and not proscriptive.
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We are NOT a democracy...we are a Constitutional republic and there is a difference.
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MSG Stan Hutchison
This argument goes around and around. We ARE a type odf democracy. From Merriam-Webster:
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: 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
Call it what you will. As long as we have free public voting, we have a from of democracy,
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: 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
Call it what you will. As long as we have free public voting, we have a from of democracy,
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Lt Col Scott Shuttleworth
Republic or Democracy? Classical History, Republican Governing as Adopted by the United States,...
From these definitions it is clear why there might be some confusion. A representative republic uses “democratic means” to manifest the consent of the governed. We vote for representatives, who vote on measures. Voting is democracy in action, but that does not make the United States a democracy. The measures that our representatives vote on are constrained by law and the Constitution.
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