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To: EternalVigilance
It is a republic, but it is based on the votes of the people, making it ultimately democratic.

GW was probably right, but it hasn't worked out that way.

Hamilton, Madison and Jefferson, started the first parties BTW.

141 posted on 04/01/2012 8:08:39 AM PDT by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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To: A.Hun
It is a republic, but it is based on the votes of the people, making it ultimately democratic.

No. It is ultimately a constitutional republic, "an empire of laws, not of men."

146 posted on 04/01/2012 8:11:50 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (You can be a Romney Republican or you can be a conservative. You can't be both. Pick one.)
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