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Originally Posted by coadie
Read some history. Then tell us if we are a democracy.
What's the difference? According to my Merriam-Webster:
•Democracy — Government by the people; government in which the supreme power is retained by the people and exercised either directly (Ablsolute, or pure), or indirectly (representative).
•Republic — A state in which the sovereign power resides in a certain body of the people (the electorate), and is exercised by representatives elected by, and responsible to, them.
Articles I and II of the Constitution are very explicit: We choose representatives and they make the rules that we live by until its time to choose again. Thank God we don't have to run down to the townhall, the statehouse, or the nation's capitol to decide every question.
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We are a republic not a democracy. A republic is governed by established laws a democracy is governed by a majority.
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