Can someone tell the administrator that on the 'home' page is says:
How can we strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness by making government more transparent, participatory, and collaborative?
WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY WE ARE A REPUBLIC! A REPUBLIC 'ELECTS' REPS TO GO TO THE FEDERAL GOV. TO 'REPRESENT' US! A democracy everyone goes to the government to vote on bills and laws - there is a very HUGE difference. Democracies are for small groups of people - a REPUBLIC is for large - very large groups of people that can not come together because of logistics, work, large population .....
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You know you have just confused the hell out of everyone on here by knowing that!
Good point.
A REPUBLIC? NO. I THOUGHT THE USURPER SAID NOT ONLY ARE WE A DEMOCRACY (YEAH RIGHT) BUT HAVE 57 STATES. MAYBE THE 7 I DONT KNOW ABOUT ARE WHERE ALL THE MUSLIM MAJORITY OF THIS COUNTRY RESIDE.
A Lynch mob is a great example of democracy in action!
We are a REPUBLIC, the CONSTITUTION IS SUPREME!
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine".
Thomas Jefferson
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You are correct in that this is a republic. However, acting like a lynch mob is not becoming to anyone.
"Acting like a lynch mob is not becoming to anyone".
Don't tell me, tell the liberals. I believe in inalienable rights for everyone, they don't!
I haven't been represented by the Federal Stateist establishment since Reagan left office. So even though you are right - we are supposed to be a Representative Republic in reality we are well on our way to Socialist Utopia.
GM should have gone bankrupt like other companies have.
The bums in Washington who created the housing bubble to begin with should have been voted out.
Instead they stay in to demonize Free Market Capitalism. Guess what - We aren't really a Free Market either. So the very people who helped create the exact problem we are in, are the same ones that will FIX it. Yeah, they'll FIX IT all right. They'll fix it so we are no longer a civil society and everything is controlled by the Stateist elite.
People it's time to talk to your friends and make sure they are really paying attention. Don't be afraid, civil discourse is what founded this country.
We can do it again. Talk to each other.
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Those voting against this are NOT our countrymen. WHY?
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC. . . ."
Sorry to burst your bubble, but we truly live under an Oligarchy.
Good points to be made at this website if you care to look.
http://www.usavsus.info/
The Elitist truly are in control.
It's what inevitably happens when we allow "Legal Bribes" to our supposed Rep's in Government to recieve the Lobby and Special Interest Group Money in exchange for votes and/or favorable legislation!
Representative "Republic" Government ended the moment we allowed them to vote laws into effect to make those "Bribes" psuedo-Legal.
And Obama knows what he is talking about whereas
Well, weturner. I totally agree with you. They've been in charge for quite a long time.
Sorry I seem to have had an error my last post.
My last line said "And Obama knows what he is talking about whereas"
Should have finished thought:
And Obama knows what he is talking about whereas in that under Corporate USA policies DC and the territories are also states (not positive on DC) but Guam, American Somoa, The Marshall Islands, the Philipines, etc.).
Democracy Versus Republic
These succinct definitions of what is Democracy and what is a Republic was produced by the US Army in 1928, These definitions have been quietly withdrawn since, soon after.
Democracy:
A government of the masses.
Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.
Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is comunistic-negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate. whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Results in demagogism license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.
A certain Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago, had this to say about Democracy: " A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship."
A democracy is majority rule and is destructive of liberty because there is no law to prevent the majority from trampling on individual rights. Whatever the majority says goes! A lynch mob is an example of pure democracy in action. There is only one dissenting vote, and that is cast by the person at the end of the rope.
Republic:
Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.
Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.
A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of:
an executive and
a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create
a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize
certain inherent individual rights.
Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.
Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic."
A republic is a government of law under a Constitution. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the rights of the individual. Under this system of government a lynch mob is illegal. The suspected criminal cannot be denied his right to a fair trial even if a majority of the citizenry demands otherwise.
Difference between Democracy and Republic, in brief:
Democracy:
a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority.
b: 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.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences
Republic
a: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government.
b: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.
Democracy and Republic are often taken as one of the same thing, but there is a fundamental difference. Whilst in both cases the government is elected by the people, in Democracy the majority rules according to their whims, whilst in the Republic the Government rule according to law. This law is framed in the Constitution to limit the power of Government and ensuring some rights and protection to Minorities and individuals.
The difference between Republic and Righteous Republic is that in the Republic the Government rules according to the law set up by men, in the Righteous Republic the law is the Law of God. Only in the Righteous Republic it can truly be said "One nation under God" for it is governed under commandments of the only One True God and there is no pluralism of religions.
Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered.
Mobocracy: 1. Political control by a mob. 2. The mass of common people as the source of political control.