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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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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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