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America was founded as a Constitutional Republic PAL
originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: EyeoftheHurricane
America was founded as a Constitutional Republic PAL
Yes, it was. Quite correct.
Democracy had already been established in America before that happened, so there was no need to introduce it specially. The New England Colonies were governed by democratically elected assemblies by the end of the 1630s. Franchise was limited (women, slaves and most Native Americans lacked a vote) but they were democratic all right. And they continued to be democratic after the Revolution of 1776.
If you ever bother to read the Constitution of which you are so proud, you will see that it assumes that members of the legislature are to be chosen ‘by the people’ in democratic (if franchise-limited) elections.
Only wannabe fascists and idiots who think ‘democracy’ means the Democratic Party insist that America is somehow ‘not a democracy’.
Copied Toggle open close Contrary to popular belief, America is not, nor was it meant to be, a pure democracy. America is a republic. Nevertheless, more and more voices today are calling for America to become a direct democracy. A 2017 Pew Research survey found that 67 percent of those Americans polled considered a system in which citizens voted directly on “major national issues” to be a good thing.1 Richard Wike, Kate Simmons, Bruce Stokes, and Janell Fetterolf, “Globally, Broad Support for Representative and Direct Democracy,” Pew Research Center, October 16, 2017, www.pewresearch.org...-publics-want-a-dir ect-say (accessed April 4, 2020). The National Citizens Initiative for Democracy, sponsored by former Senator Mike Gravel (D–AK) and endorsed by the likes of Noam Chomsky and the late Howard Zinn, calls for direct democracy through the creation of an independent “Legislature of the People,” which would allow American citizens to amend the Constitution directly and pass laws of their own choosing, bypassing both state and federal legislatures in the process.
America’s Founders carefully thought through the problems of direct democracy and explicitly rejected this model—and for good reason. They saw that because ancient democracies lacked any social or institutional forces that could check, refine, or moderate the will of the majority, they were prone to great instability, riven by factionalism, and subject to the passions and short-sightedness of the public. Direct democracies were thus vulnerable to tyranny.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg2
It's astonishing the level of delusion in the Republican cult ..
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg2
Oh come off it.
originally posted by: AngryCymraeg2
*Rolls eyes*
The Democrats are not destroying the country by the way. The border is just fine,
The Democrats are just pointing out the US's flaws and asking people to be nice to one another.
But as I said, that's too much for those who need to clutch their hatred to their chests
Oh and if you are so against communism then I assume you will not accept social security when that time comes?