"Strabo" wrote in message
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RD (The Sandman) wrote:
"SaPeIsMa" wrote in
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It's a REPUBLIC using SOME democratic processes
But that does NOT make it a "democracy"

Insted of repeating your ignorance over and over
EDUCATE YOURSELF.
www.wimp.com/thegovernment
Then Compare the two definitions below.
NOTE that they are NOT synonyms
http://m-w.com/dictionary/republic

1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and
who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a
nation) having such a form of government b (1) : 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 (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having
such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government
of a political unit the French Fourth Republic

Read (2)b(1) and (2) Now compare to the next definition.

http://m-w.com/dictionary/democracy

1 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
2 : a political unit that has a democratic government

Look at 1b and 2. Compare to the above definitions. Not a lot of
difference. We are a representative democracy or republic. They are
virtually the same.


"Majority rule" or democracy is impossible with the Constitution and
Bill of Rights.

That the Constitution is ignored and laws are broken does not alter
the fact that the united states is a *constitutional republic*. Each
state is even guaranteed a republican form of government by the
Constitution.

It's just too bad they don't leave them alone after that to run the state
without federal interference.

Steve