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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.
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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.