Posted on 02/22/2018 8:09:29 PM PST by huckfillary
Constitutional republic or constitutional democracy. Whatever you choose to call it, our form of government is the greatest on the planet.
Everyone should read the following for new, fresh insight that is an easy, quick read. It will probably surprise you.
Is The Second Amendment Worth Dying For?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3633354/posts
It’s a pet peeve of mine, too. I refer to the pince-nez pedants who lie in wait for the US to be called a democracy so they can bedazzle bystanders with their superior patriotism. It’s irritating.
And even those who should know better like the FoxNews commentators follow suit. It’s one thing for Rachel Madcow to say it, but Hannity and Carlson ?
“Repeat after me-—the United States is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. The Founders, to a man, loathed and feared democracy. “
We were, sigh. Now we’re a banana republic thanks to those that call themselves democrats.
If it’s accuracy we’re after, I’d say that around the time George Bush’s administration rammed Raisch v Gonzales through the Supreme Court, the last barriers between the federal government and the states came down. We are no longer a republic with a federal government of enumerated powers, but a nation-state.
Think of the US as going from a compartmented dirigible to a large gas bag, or blimp. I think the Civil War made it inevitable.
When the Courts and the Politicians have no respect for the Constitution, the Document they Swear an Oath to Defend and Protect, the Republic is doomed.
I hate it when people call left-wingers liberals.
I was genuinely shocked the first time I had occasion to know what leftists think of the Constitution. To them, it is just a piece of paper written by some dead guys long ago. We can throw constitutionality at them all day long to no effect. They don’t care.
When pressed on the eternal truths, their response is, “This time it’s different.”
Go back and listen to then State Senator Obama (I believe) saying the Founders got it wrong and that the Constitution should consist of “Negative†Rights.
He says the Constitution should list what the Government can “do” for it’s Citizens. In Liberal gibberish it actually means a list of what the Government can do “to” it’s Citizen’s.
You know, like Disarm them.
I very much appreciate all of your feedback and having taken the time to read my thoughts. A/D
Nicely done.
Ping.
Certainly.
BTW - I do wish I had taken your Screen Name first. LOL
The fact of the matter is, most people on this Country have no idea of what FREEDOM is or means and the responsibility and sacrifice necessary to pass it on the future Generations.
Look at these Kids protesting the NRA and pushing Gun Control. They have no problem thinking that Gun Confiscation is the answer to everything, when it actually will lead to the end of everything.
It’s funny how the left worships JFK, but if you remind them of “Ask not what your country can do for you,” they get all frothy at the mouth.
I know we were founded as a constitutional republic but which model were we exactly following? What did the founders say?
They are using the term in the generic sense. The government is selected by the people is some form. All those people you are getting outraged at know very well how the government works. They are not wrong to use the term "democracy". Your outrage is misplaced.
The structure of our government is republican and the process of our government is as a representative democracy. The United States even has elements of pure democracy, the New England town meeting and the 26 states that have initiative and referendum where the people can pass laws without politicians.
“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…” Sir Winston Churchill
https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
“Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”—Ronald Reagan
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/ronald_reagan_387305
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“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” ― Benjamin Franklin Or the one often missatributed to Ben “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.” I think I’ve seen it with the additional “A Republic is when the sheep is armed.”
Lawmaking is the central feature of government. In republics, lawmaking is the responsibility of representatives of the component members of society. Notwithstanding our beloved Constitution, I shake my head in disbelief when I occasionally read at conservative websites that modern America is a republic; it is little more a republic than Imperial Rome circa 300 AD was a republic just because emperors kept up the charade of republican institutions. Then, as now, what passes for republican government better resembles scenes of power-mad factions going at each other’s throats, rather than constituent members joined in common purpose to advance the best interests of the nation.
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