[jacknhoo]

The USA’s type of government: constitutional federal republic

[jacknhoo]

The USA’s type of government: constitutional federal republic

The individual states may be democracies, but the USA is not.

[Cvengr]

A socialist regulated constitutional federal republic

[sparklite2]

The USA’s type of government: constitutional federal republic

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That may have been the intention, but what we have now is a decadent (1), nation-state (2).

(1) Any nation wherein something as impactful as Obamacare can be enacted by the legislative body without them reading it first, is decadent.

(2) The last barriers to control of the nation by the central government were blown down by the Bush administration’s victory in the Supreme Court case of Raich v Gonzales. This ended the federal/republican form of governing. Justice Thomas noted correctly in dissent that ...

“By holding that Congress may regulate activity that is neither interstate nor commerce under the Interstate Commerce Clause, the Court abandons any attempt to enforce the Constitution’s limits on federal power.”