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Is America a Republic or is it a Democracy – What is it?
Metallicman ^ | 11OCT18 | Editorial staff

Posted on 10/11/2018 4:10:36 AM PDT by vannrox

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For every little nook and cranny of corruption, every little enclave of small-town deep state, there’s a surrounding population a thousand or ten thousand times greater in number.

That population is the common man, and the corrupt tremble at the thought of their deeds becoming known to him.


41 posted on 10/11/2018 5:32:58 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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How long would it take to clean up the corruption?

Less than one day.


42 posted on 10/11/2018 5:35:16 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: vannrox

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands ....

I hate hearing pundits talk about living in a democracy.


43 posted on 10/11/2018 5:36:50 AM PDT by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

It is probably time to bring civics classes back for grades 1-12.

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What makes you assume that they would actually teach civics in their ‘civics classes’?


44 posted on 10/11/2018 5:40:25 AM PDT by z3n
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To: TheNext

Not so fast, my FRiend!

I would contend, as I often do, that the 16th Amendment is the worst, with 17th right behind.

If I had it my way, both would be repealed immediately!


45 posted on 10/11/2018 5:47:09 AM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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To: vannrox

It’s a Republic that chooses its representatives through democratic means, operating in a Constitutional framework.

Or at least it was.


46 posted on 10/11/2018 5:53:58 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: vannrox

This should explain it very clearly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=VogzExP3qhI


47 posted on 10/11/2018 6:00:10 AM PDT by BobinIL
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To: reasonisfaith

Yes. Might be a good point.....but -

Trump is DIVINE intervention. For which I and millions of others fervently prayed.

His support is far too thin nationally and a pendulum reaction to Obama.

Now the reaction in too much of the nation is against Trump - the pendulum is swinging back in the liberal direction.

If the Republicans keep the House, you can color me wrong. Blue states that supported Trump in ‘16 pretty much no longer do so.


48 posted on 10/11/2018 6:10:57 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: vannrox

A republic, with democratically (small D intentional) chosen representation.


49 posted on 10/11/2018 6:21:11 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: awelliott
The Founders hated democracy

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.”
- - Benjamin Franklin, 1759

50 posted on 10/11/2018 6:29:08 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Get in the Spirit! The Spirit of '76!)
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To: vannrox

We’re a Constitutional Republic.


51 posted on 10/11/2018 6:30:48 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: vannrox

It’s a mess.

But Trump is fixing it.


52 posted on 10/11/2018 6:42:58 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Arlis
Now the reaction in too much of the nation is against Trump...

And you believe this, why? Because ABCNNBCBS, NPR, NYT, LAT, WaComPost say so?

53 posted on 10/11/2018 6:44:08 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: awelliott

The founders feared a “tyranny of the majority”. That’s why we have the. Constitution


54 posted on 10/11/2018 6:50:17 AM PDT by RightLady (Save Western Civilization.)
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To: vannrox

America is run by rich oligarchs acing as individuals combined with a collectivism of warring pressure groups and special interest groups. The common average typical individual has no influence on government unless he joins one of the groups. Some of the ideas to bring back power to ordinary individuals are interesting.


55 posted on 10/11/2018 7:21:57 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: vannrox

America is a representative republic.


56 posted on 10/11/2018 7:30:55 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight yourr way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: HighSierra5; vannrox

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I always thought that we had a constitutional republic. That’s what we were taught back in the 60s. But what do I know?
>

You might have at least been TAUGHT it but, even in the 60s, you weren’t living in one (SS, Fed. Reserve, welfare, civil rights...)


57 posted on 10/11/2018 7:31:21 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: TheNext; vannrox

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America is a Progressive Dictatorship by Oligarchs, whose main goal is to demoralize you.
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IMO, incorrect.

The goal is 2 fold:
1) Create a feudal system (trample/suppress Rights)
2) Rob the populace (tax to the hilt, steal from the ‘single location’ [aka Treasury])


58 posted on 10/11/2018 7:38:27 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: Mother Mary
Were there any democracies in the world at the time of our founders. How did the founders come to hate them?

Good question. I think they simply utilized common sense; one thing the Founders understood well was human nature, along with its potential for abuse. They were careful to protect the rights of the individual from the government - in large part because they correctly realized that those rights are God-given and inalienable, not government-granted and subject to revocation.

While this was later, another thing that probably played a role was the French Revolution. Some of the Founders, such as Jefferson, initially thought it was a wonderful idea, but Adams had it pegged from the beginning. While it was considered a step toward democracy, and it predictably disintegrated into a dark and bloody period in history.

59 posted on 10/11/2018 8:19:41 AM PDT by awelliott (What one generation tolerates, the next embraces....)
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To: vannrox; wardaddy; Pelham; DiogenesLamp; Dick Bachert; GSWarrior; John S Mosby
The Federal Government is specifically a Constitutional Republic, but while it guarantees to each of the States a “Republican” form of Government, as one of its limited Constitutional functions, the Constitution specifically left questions of the suffrage in Article I—including the suffrage for Federal Offices--to each State.

In the Federalist papers, Madison specifically identifies avoiding Democracy as one of the intended purposes. The very idea of determining basic principles, simply by counting noses, defies logic, and is clearly unsuitable for a social structure for a people who celebrate the aspirations of those who seek to rise above the herd; a people, who from their early settlements learned on the anvil of experience, how unsuited Socialist/Communist values were for a people who aspired to excel.

The current crisis in America is a direct--and clearly foreseeable--result of an educational system that no longer celebrates our aspiratory values, but endlessly prattles forms of the collectivist/egalitarian dogma that drives the far Left.

One of the roots of this misdirection comes from the attempt of internationalist theorists to subvert the very concept of a nation, in order to impose a "new world order" on all peoples:

Surrender By Subterfuge

60 posted on 10/11/2018 8:44:11 AM PDT by Ohioan
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