Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Last edited by Captdon; 07-12-2018 at 12:07 PM.
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
Lots of words like that--fascist, white nationalist, some liberals are trying to change the meaning of snowflake.
From all I've seen, democracy and republic were distinct when applied to classical Greeks and then Romans. Of course, the Founders meant, and described distinct forms of government, when they used democracy and republic. Around the 1950s the distinction disappeared. Democracy as a type simply became rule by the people, with different forms distinguishing how the people ruled, directly or representationally--representational tends to mean parliamentary government in countries that use that form, tends to mean presidental in cases like the US--just the word used to distinguish.
I think people can be ambiguous in a sneaky way. Others authrotiarian in insistence. People should just be more like the founders and define in text what specifically they mean, like Madison here:
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of Government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Captdon (07-12-2018)
A representative republic has little to do with Presidents. It has to do with how we make laws. Under a democracy, all eligible voters convene, write the laws, vote on them and pass or reject them. In a representative republic, the people vote for representatives who convene to write and pass or reject the laws.
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Captdon (07-12-2018)
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parliamentary government this is much more democratic then presidential elected government
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Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.