Maybe if you looked up the word democracy in the dictionary, you'd realize that the #1 definition is a representative government of democratically elected representatives. It's interchangeable with the term "Republic".
You object to Democracy because you think of Democracy as one person one vote on all matter's. But that's not the most common usage of the word. So chill!
But that’s exactly how he views it. It’s re-education.
....And to the Republic for which it stands....
If the writers of the pledge wanted to use democracy they would have....we’re a republic.
.... and to the Republic for which it stands...
No, sir. A Republic and a Democracy are NOT interchangeable in a political dictionary. . . Perhaps they are in the Democrats dumbed down revisionist dickshunary you use, but there are worlds and words of differences in political philosophy between them that mean a lot. . . and WARS have been fought over those differences.
No need to chill eagleone.
We are a Republic. Actually a representative Republic, though some say constitutional republic.
In no way is republic interchangeable with democracy.
The distinction between our Republic and a democracy is not an idle one. It has great legal significance.
The Constitution guarantees to every state a Republican form of government (Art. 4, Sec. 4). No state may join the United States unless it is a Republic. Our Republic is one dedicated to “liberty and justice for all.”
Minority individual rights are the priority. The people have natural rights instead of civil rights. The people are protected by the Bill of Rights from the majority. One vote in a jury can stop all of the majority from depriving any one of the people of his rights; this would not be so if the United States were a democracy. (see People’s rights vs Citizens’ rights)
In a pure democracy 51 beats 49[%]. In a democracy there is no such thing as a significant minority: there are no minority rights except civil rights (privileges) granted by a condescending majority. Only five of the U.S. Constitution’s first ten amendments apply to Citizens of the United States.
Simply stated, a democracy is a dictatorship of the majority. Socrates was executed by a democracy: though he harmed no one, the majority found him intolerable.
SOME DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS
Government. ....the government is but an agency of the state, distinguished as it must be in accurate thought from its scheme and machinery of government. ....In a colloquial sense, the United States or its representatives, considered as the prosecutor in a criminal action; as in the phrase, “the government objects to the witness.” [Black’s Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, p. 625]
Government; Republican government. One in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whome those powers are specially delegated. In re Duncan, 139 U.S. 449, 11 S.Ct. 573, 35 L.Ed. 219; Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) 162, 22 L.Ed. 627. [Black’s Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, p. 626]
Democracy. That form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of free citizens directly or indirectly through a system of representation, as distinguished from a monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy. Black’s Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, pp. 388-389.
http://www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/repvsdem.htm
You’re an idiot!
Democracy is the death of a representative republic. They are diametric opposites.