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Originally Posted by NoDrama
Sure if Wikipedia is your source. And by that definition you would be ok if 51% of the population decided to kill the other 49%? Sorry A republic is MUCH different than a Democracy. In a Republic nothing can outvote your individual rights, they are unalienable. In other words 51% could not vote to kill the other 49% because the 49% have rights to life, just as do the 51% majority, which is where the "Common Law" definition comes into. I am using that term loosely to illustrate the fact that "Common Law" is natural to all men. We all know killing others or causing others harm is NOT good. I am not using "Common Law" term as opposed to statutory law, constitutional law, or case law. Read the context of the post before trying to discredit someone.
Hey wanna see something neat? Go look at a copy of the Constitution, Article IV section 4 states "The United States shall Guarantee to every State in this union a Republican form of government..."
Wanna see something else? Read the Declaration Of Independence. Your answers are in those documents. Now go ahead and tell me again how the US is a "Democracy" when the LAW OF THE LAND says it is NOT!
A Republic is just a Democracy with no monarch huh? I laugh at this premise. So many people who have been brainwashed by the propaganda on TV and in the books your were taught in school. You do know that history did not really happen the way you were taught right?
Not trying to be a jerk here, but when I can prove you wrong I will.
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You DO realize that "a republican form of government" simply means that NO state will be established as a monarchy, right?
the definition of democracy, from Merriam-Webster
–noun, plural -cies. 1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. 2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies. 3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges. 4. political or social equality; democratic spirit. 5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.
The definition of republic, from the same source:
–noun 1. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them. 2. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth. 3. a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state. 4. (initial capital letter
) any of the five periods of republican government in France. Compare
First Republic,
Second Republic,
Third Republic,
Fourth Republic,
Fifth Republic. 5. (initial capital letter, italics
) a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato dealing with the composition and structure of the ideal state.
You're acting as if the US can only be one or the other, when in fact, the US is BOTH a republic AND a democracy, because those two words are SYNONYMS for one another (they mean essentially the same thing).