Republic vs. Democracy {Charley Reese}

King Features Syndicate ^ | 7/10/2002 {repost} | Charley Reese

[Huck]

Charlie Reese? I didn't know that. I knew he was a bad writer, and from the looks of it, not too bright, but I didn't know he was a traitor.

[Conservative Chicagoan]

He sides with the Palestinians and doesn't want America to defend itself against Iraq and other threats!

[Red Jones]

peace and love bump

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

"If someone really wants to understand republicanism"

H, I suggest a look at the philosophy written in Plato's Republic. Consider. Today, Iraq, Both Chinas, Korea, and various other despotic governments are "Republics". "Yesterday", there were the former{?} Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. When Jefferson said those words, I don't think any "Republic" other than Plato's had been. People really need to understand what they are being sold. We have a form of government unlike any before or since. IMHO, "Representative" Republic best fits. Democraticly elected "representatives".

It is no wonder that writers on our government seem confused. They always try to compare it with some other. Don't work! We have the "more perfect" form of government ever known. The addition in 1892 of the Bill of Rights that puts strict limits on government made us other than a "Republic". The Parliamentary system where lawmakers may "make all necessary laws" {Government by the whims of man} without restraint is most similar to a "Republic". Peace and love, George.

[mel]

Yes, didn't he have a recent article something about "Muslims are Good People"? After reading a few of his anti Israeli articles, all I could take, I decided there was only one use for his articles, but sadly i don't have an outhouse.

[Conservative Chicagoan]

Yes he did. It was disgusting propoganda. I'll believe Louis Farakhan is a good person when you convince me he is not a traitor. I'd be less suprised to find out Allah actually exists.

[Texasforever]

This "outrage" over people describing our system as a democracy is a favorite canard of the keyboard constitutionalists that have decided that only they know what the constitution actually means. They have latched on to the dubious distinction between a "democracy" and a "republic" and then use that as a convenient way to hammer others into submission.

Then they applauded state referenda that is clearly "democracy" in its purist form and regale the Feds when they do not recognize that referenda. They switch from arguing "republic" to "democracy" at the moment something gores their pet ox. In this country, over time and through common usage democracy and republic have been accepted as the same thing. I.e. A free people that decides how and by whom they will be governed.