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Old 07-12-2007, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Notorial dissent
We are, and have been since the founding, a Republic, a democratic republic, but a republic none the less. What has changed since the founding is that the franchise has been expanded to more people in the last 200 odd years. If we were truly a “Democracy” everyone would have to vote on everything, and nothing at all would get done.

The gov’t speaks of democracy, because the average person has a great deal of say in what goes on in gov’t.
Come on ND, don't try that crap here. You know that law is about the meaning of words, yet here you are mixing them up and thinking we won't notice?
1 Democratic republic = communist. Was that a slip?
2 You need to read what was written in the times before the declaration of independance.
3 We aren't idiots, please don't treat us as such.
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