To: kattracks
.... not in our democracy .. Uh, it's a REPUBLIC. Someone needs to remind the author. Maybe he should recite the pledge of allegiance one more time and really listen to the words.
2 posted on
02/24/2004 9:18:08 PM PST by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
de·moc·ra·cy ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-mkr-s) n. pl. de·moc·ra·cies
- Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.
- A political or social unit that has such a government.
- The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.
- Majority rule.
- The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.
[French démocratie, from Late Latin dmocratia, from Greek dmokrati : dmos, people; see d- in Indo-European Roots + -krati, -cracy.] |
re·pub·lic ( P ) Pronunciation Key (r-pblk) n.
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- A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.
- A nation that has such a political order.
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- A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.
- A nation that has such a political order.
- often Republic A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.
- An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
- A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.
[French république, from Old French, from Latin rspblica : rs, thing; see r- in Indo-European Roots + pblica, feminine of pblicus, of the people; see public.] |
Well our system is of government is indeed a republic, is is also a democracy, and specifically the most accurate terms would be a Democratic Republic or a Republican Democracy.
Democracy only means, as I highlighted, government by the people. It can be a representative form with a written constitution, as ours is, or a parlimentary one ala the UK, or a direct democracy as in ancient Greece.
So Williams is indeed right to talk about our democracy.
To: SandRat
actually we're a constitutional republic.
a lynch mob is a democracy.
7 posted on
02/24/2004 9:33:34 PM PST by
Coleus
(Help Tyler Schicke http://tylerfund.org/ Burkitt's leukemia)
To: SandRat
LOL....that's how I taught an 11 year old grandson once....when I told him we were NOT a democracy.....works on an 11 year old, might work on ol' Armstrong, too.
20 posted on
02/24/2004 10:11:49 PM PST by
goodnesswins
(If you're Voting Dem/Constitution Party/Libertarian/Not - I guess it's easier than using your brain.)
To: SandRat
I'm with you on this one, sand rat
25 posted on
02/25/2004 8:32:01 AM PST by
LandofLincoln
((THE RIGHT HAS BECOME THE LEFT))
To: SandRat
The majority doesn't rule in the country, where's this guy been? It takes a super-majority to even get a vote on judicial nominee and liberal judges alone make law.
To: SandRat
Are we still alowed to recite the pledge in this country?
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