We’re not even a republic any more.
Any male citizen could participate and vote in the main assembly.
Ah, the good old days.
JK ladies!!!
So nice to see them using the word democracy and showing how much they love democracy,(puke on my shoes)
I bet they do this on purpose. To condition us to think that when they are in power, they rule absolutely (like in a democracy)
Sort of like they are doing now, with the thinnest of majorities.
Epic fail.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot with a title.
The author makes some good points but I cannot take seriously anyone who writes that Marbury was appointed by Federalist POTUS James Madison. When any 7th grader would know it was Federalist John Adams. In fact Madison was Jefferson’s Sec of State. The Sec State at that time dealt with many more matters than foreign policy. Signing judicial appointments was one of them. The author is either ignorant or too lazy to proofread his work.
I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
John Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
Everyone should have figured out long ago that “our democracy” is a codeword. You will never hear anyone but Democrats use it, and it translates to “Democrat power and control”.
They don’t give a flip about actual democracy, or that we are a representative republic for that matter. They are not misinformed or using the wrong word, once you understand that it is a codeword, what they say makes perfect sense. When they express fear over “losing our democracy” they are saying they are afraid of losing their power and control.
This argument gets more and boring and ridiculous each time.
For the record we sure as hell are a Democracy BUT our form of democracy is that of a representative republic. We freely vote for whoever we feel represents us the best. Our version of a representative republic has many checks and balances to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority. We sure as hell are not a direct democracy. The founding fathers rejected that concept and for good reason.
There is an old man named Mike Pence
Who is best known for riding the fence;
When asked to delay it
He just couldn't say it;
And now he's of no con-se-quence.
You are wasting your breath! The democrats choose to believe that we are a democatic form of government.
Another ignoramus who is ditched Civics class and doesn’t know about indirect democracy.
...The Founding Fathers created a representative democracy, not a democracy....
George Washington rode a white horse, which is not a horse, because everyone knows white horses can't be horses.
Like that.
Indirect democracy refers to a system of government in which the people control the government through elected political officials. The elected representatives represent the people as opposed to the direct democracy which is a system where people make public policy decisions directly through referendums or initiatives. This is also called a republic or a representative democracy.
A democracy would render the Electoral College irrelevant.
Hey! Lay off! Females weren't even invented yet!