Posted on 10/22/2020 9:37:25 AM PDT by Heartlander
“And to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
I am of the opinion that the education system, esp High School and College, no longer teach the differences between a democracy and a republic. Perhaps by design to enable the implementation of the socialist / marxist agenda.
Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
> the United States is not a democracy <
The meaning of words evolve over time. The word “democracy” is now also taken to mean the type government of the United States has. Yes, it would be nice for folks to know the original meaning of the word.
But to insist that the United States is not a democracy, well that’s a bit too Karen-like for me.
Pure democracy is like two foxes and one chicken voting on what’s for lunch. ...also like the House of Representatives voting on impeachment for no wrongdoing. Our founders wrote an amazing Constitution.
Pure democracy is like two foxes and one chicken voting on what’s for lunch.
In a Republic, the chicken is well-armed.
I taught my sons and their friends about the difference between a Democracy and a Republic.
I used the two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat story.
I also ask my Congressman Jody Hice to send me copies of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution so that I can hand them out to individuals who do not comprehend the concept of our government.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061005083707AAwNSf8
Methinks you may want to look for a different website, one more befitting your perspective.
I am not sure who to attribute it to, Franklin I think, that stated democracy is defined as 2 wolves and a lamb voting on what is for dinner. Democracies are majority rule and do nothing to protect the minority, while republics are designed to protect individual liberties and minority opinions. It is sad you cannot distinguish that fact and instead want to belittle people who understand the difference.
Methinks you misunderstood my post.
I’m not denying that the United States is a republic (and thank goodness it is). But there are many accepted meanings of the word “democracy”. And one of them refers to the type of representative government the United States has.
Maybe that’s unfortunate. But it is what it is.
The real difference between the two is that in a Republic the founding social contract sets limits on the government’s powers in order to protect minorities; in a Democracy it is the people, not the social contract, that sets those limits, which in practice means that there aren’t any. In a republic a citizen may enjoy the right to speak freely, in a democracy that citizen enjoys that right only if the mob allows it. Which sounds sort of familiar, doesn’t it?
In a true democracy, if the voters decide youshould be hanged by the neck...well, buh-bye. Democracy is mob rule, the democrats like that.
Oh please Lee, shut up. And send all those donations back to Big Tech.
Anybody who understands what The Great Compromise was meant to be - and much later the passing of the 17th Amendment knows that senators are elected my mob rule these days (the whole state, I.E. democracy, not a representative republic) would also know that today a senator represents his/her party rather than the state they supposedly represent.
Smell a wee bit of hypocrisy here.
Since December 2000! ;)
Because the TEACHERS never learned it from their socialist/Marxist teachers.
The Founders were far too intelligent to create a democracy that could lead to a tyranny of the majority.
Words most definitely evolve. The word “democracy” would mean one thing to an ancient Athenian, and something else to a modern American.
Check any dictionary. The Athenian definition will be there (aka direct democracy). But so will be the modern definition (aka representative democracy).
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