Rumpole
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I did. You started in on the "minority rule" crap, a completely fraudulent concept. Blocking majority rule is NOT minority rule.
Majority rule is a shitty way to make decisions in society, and should only be employed when it is absolutely necessary. Otherwise, freedom of choice is a much better way to go.
I'll repeat it and highlight the point which deals with your question:
You wrote:
Do you agree that removing limits on democracy make it untenable?
And what I wrote, which you are ignoring, answers that question:
What the framers did was try their best, knowing that they didn't know that what they were going to do would even work, was to temper the excesses of democracy by establishing a bicameral legislature, a house of representatives, a senate, and an electoral college, noting that, in none of these institutions, was it ever intended for minority rule, the intent was just to temper democracy's faults and to the best degree possible, preserve minority rights.
The stuff about 'minority rule' was only to counter the oft argued point by repubs that 'democracy equals mob rule', which implies that the framers didn't want democracy, which is majority rule. What they actually wanted is stated above, but it's still majority rule. Now, you may differ on that point but it is one that I"ve heard rather often from the right.
But all of this is getting side tracked, because my point was that America is a democracy, just a democracy of a certain type. Terms like 'Constitutional Republic" and 'representative democracy mean pretty much the same thing when applied to America.