Long before the socialist and communist took over the DNC the. original so-called “progressives” were against what this country was founded to be. They wanted something more French in terms of government able to do whatever the hell they thought it should be doing ... none of this Limited Government Republic guff.
The libs and others always get the Constitution, Bill of Right and the Declaration of Independence all confused quoting from and IDing it wrong.
Oh hell!!
You just caused a whole bunch of Liberals to lose their sh*t with this fact!
It doesn’t matter; liberals have only contempt for democracy anyway.
Since passage of the 17th Amendment, it is fair to say we are a democratic republic.
And the National Popular Vote Movement is doing far too well.
It is something which has been repeated so often, that people come to believe that we are a democracy.
Most of us here on Free Republic, know that we are a constitutional republic. The average person out there doesn’t know there is a difference between a “republic” and a “democracy”.
To talk of “undocumented” people, makes it sound as if they are “undocumented” because they lost their ID, and are waiting for their replacement driver’s license.
And this is what the left wants us to think. The left is changing the language so that we won’t think that “undocumented” people are here illegally.
Tucker Carlson always proclaims we are a democracy! I emailed him to remind him we are not a democracy but a Constitutional Republic, but a few days later he again proclaimed we are a democracy!
“Reminder to Liberals: The USA Is Not a Democracy...”
Lot of good that theory does us when it comes to voting on semi-auto and magazine bans among other things.
Liberals don’t think the US is a democracy. They think it’s fascist.
Our constitutional republic is far superior.
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Democrats don’t care about democracy.
Democrats crave a brutally oppressive socialist state.
This is an important distinction that is lost in the liberal "semantic infiltration."
At the state level, people are part of a representative republic where they vote for district assemblymen to their state legislature. They also vote directly for their governor, the executive of the state.
The United States was structured differently: the people voted directly for representatives in the House of Representatives, but the states (as sovereign governments) appointed what were effectively ambassadors to the Senate. The President, the executive of the federation of states, was selected by the states via the Electoral College made up on non-government citizens of each state.
Each state has the power over how to select their Electors to the Electoral College. It is the Electors as state delegations who choose the President.
It is wrong to simply state that the United States is a representative republic and leave it there. At the state level it is (see Article IV), but at the federal level it is more like a United Nations, with the President as Secretary General, the Senate as the Security Council, and the House as the general delegation. Each general member is its own sovereignty, and the Secretary General's purpose is to administer the negotiations between the member states. The Security Council there as a backstop against runaway actions by the members.
That's what the United States is at the federal level.
-PJ
I don’t know what the US is anymore. States Rights are supposed to prevail with anything that isn’t in the Constitution. Without that, out-of-control gov is inevitable.
Even if they started to call the US a Republic they'd just redefine the meaning of the word 'Republic' and keep moving.
Americans who don't want to lose their country, history and future, are already scheduled to be hanged literally or figuratively by The Powers That Shouldn't Be who have a laser focus on getting rid of Trump and making sure the little people never again allow an outsider to become president.
It's time for those who love America to realize that they're basically under a death sentence already and react the same way as Samuel Johnson who said, “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”.
JMHo
Was not!
Watching Sen Michael Bennett (D-CO) on CSpan now. He’s instructing the audience to vote out the Freedom Caucus and Mitch McConnell.
Sen Bennett is displaying totalitarian tendencies.
They just never quite got it: “...and to the republic for which it stands...”
Of course, our leftist schools stopped having our children recite the Pledge of Allegiance decades ago. I did it every day in K-6 in the 60’s.
Pubic school teachers — domestic enemy #2.
(Lawyers are domestic enemy #1.)
I grew up listening to the late Mark Scott on Detroit talk radio. He was tea party long before there was a tea party.
He used the term Constitutionally Limited Republic to describe the United States.
I agree with him.
Another reminder to liberals: when the Constitution says “The People” it means the AMERICAN People.
Yes, it is a Constitutional Republic, a decidedly different thing from a democracy.
JoMa