WEBCO wrote:
Sorry perm, the US is a democratic republic, not a democracy. Always has been.
Our founding fathers were smart enough to understand that a "democracy" always leads to destruction. In a "democracy" the minority would have no rights.
I hope that there are enough intelligent people to explain to the fools that we aren't, and never were, a democracy.
A kicking donkey is the symbol of the democrats because they are generally stubborn, violent, and stupid.
The word ‘democracy’ (greek: demos = mob kratia = rule) doesn’t appear anywhere in our founding documents.
On the contrary, the US constitution -the highest law of the land - legally defines our form of government as ‘republican’ and guarantees to all the states a ‘republican’ form of government. That is THE definitive definition, and it is legally binding.
Anyone that says ‘our democracy’ is lying, strictly speaking. What they are doing is using the term colloquially as meaning somewhere you can vote for your government representatives but since you can do that in any one party dictatorship it’s meaningless in addition to inaccurate and they should really stop doing it. Just say ‘our republic’.
The framers designed our government specifically to prevent democracy which all political philosophers from Aristotle to Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Hancock, Washington, Adams, and Jefferson agreed was the worst of all forms of government.
They gave us a constitutionally limited federal republic with an elective monarchy.
Why aren’t we a democracy? Because in a democracy the majority can violate everyone else’s rights. So, the Bill of Rights prevents anyone including the government or a majority of the people from that. The US constitution makes democracy impossible because democracy is the worst possible form of government.
The house of representatives can’t just pass whatever laws they want. They have to be ratified by the Senate so there’s your first bulwark against democracy. Then they have to be signed by the elective monarch that we call a president so there’s your second bulwark against democracy. The third bulwark against democracy is the Supreme Court’s power to strike down any unconstitutional law (like Roe v Wade).
Even if 100% of the voters wanted to ban free speech it could not legally be done because that is a constitutionally guaranteed right. Our law stands above your democratic mob.
it should be clear by now that we are a constitutionally limited republic with 3 powerful bulwarks specifically designed as a check against democracy (mob rule), and designed to protect our liberties and property from the mob (democrats).