Is the US a democracy?

[Truthmatters]

the USA is a democracy.

That is how the word in the dictionary is defined.

What does it gain your party to LIE about the definitions of words?

Show that definition and site it.

Dictionary definitions of democracy include:

1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.

2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.

Democracy | Define Democracy at Dictionary.com

So you just pretend the FIRST definition doesnt exsist?

 

[Liability]

To the ALWAYS dishonest, simpleton, evasive TDM. I even gave you your own thread.

http://www.usmessageboard.com/4807226-post1.html

 

[bigrebnc1775]

the USA is a democracy.

That is how the word in the dictionary is defined.

What does it gain your party to LIE about the definitions of words?

Every few months we have to give you a refresher on this subject what is that?

 

[bigrebnc1775]

It's clear enough from "the republican element of popular control" that by 'republican" Jefferson meant "democratic." The two words were sometimes used interchangeably in those days, which is not strictly accurate but in view of the fact that people were generally concerned with only two forms of government, republic and monarchy, it's understandable.

And your signature is the reason why we must stay away from a democracy

Democracy: A Proposal For a New Constitution For the United States

No thank you democracy can bring back slavery.

 

[Truthmatters]

you people look like idiots denying the very definitions of words

 

[Liability]

TDM: You ARE the idiot and that idiocy is on full display.

the SCOTUS decided that one already huh?

They said it would be unconstitutional

Let's go with that.

So NOW, at long last, you have the SEED of the ANSWER to your dopey & ignorant question about why we conservatives (and many liberals who grasp the concept, unlike you) say that the United States is NOT a democracy.

If a democracy means the people (by a majority) hold and wield the power, then there ought to be no basis to deny the will of the majority.

YET, you have just maintained that the Court would declare the majority-supported proposition a nullity!

How can that be?

The REASON is that we are NOT a democracy after all.

We are a Federal Constitutional Republic where the will of the majority does not trump the Constitution DESPITE the majority being in the majority!

See yet? The terms "democracy" and "republic" are NOT necessarily synonymous.

QED.

There is no longer any excuse for your ongoing abject ignorance.

 

[Truthmatters]

Kinds of democracy - Political Science 001


B. Indirect democracy: Representative Democracy [Republic]

(SSB 5 end–6 top, Van, ch.2, pp. 24 top-center and 25 center)



B1. Requires protection for rights of minorities

B2. Requires widespread distribution of power so that no person or group of people has all the power

B3. Requires elections giving voters significant choices

B4. Requires widespread participation in decision-making

B5. Requires majority rule for some decisions

 

[Liability]

There is no longer any excuse for your ongoing abject ignorance.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

you people look like idiots denying the very definitions of words

Blacks law Dictionary

Government; Republican government. One in which the powers of sovereignty are vested in the people and are exercised by the people, either directly, or through representatives chosen by the people, to whome those powers are specially delegated. In re Duncan, 139 U.S. 449, 11 S.Ct. 573, 35 L.Ed. 219; Minor v. Happersett, 88 U.S. (21 Wall.) 162, 22 L.Ed. 627. [Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, p. 626]

Democracy. That form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and is exercised by the whole body of free citizens directly or indirectly through a system of representation, as distinguished from a monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy. Black's Law Dictionary, Fifth Edition, pp. 388-389.

 

[Truthmatters]

so its confirmed , right wingers are lie without compuction

 

[The Infidel]

so its confirmed , right wingers are lie without compuction

 

[Liability]

so its confirmed , right wingers are lie without compuction

Wrong again. What is confirmed is that TDM are lie without compoilatitude.

 

[Texanmike]

Democracy - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary



de·moc·ra·cy
noun \di-ˈmä-krə-sē\
pluralde·moc·ra·cies








Definition of DEMOCRACY



1

a: government by the people; especially: rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

Tell me... what is the supreme law of the land?

Do you vote on every person's innocence in a legal matter? Can the people in this country vote to remove your tongue from your mouth? Can they vote to torture you as a result of your criminal actions?

Mike

 

[Robert_Stephens]

I posted article 4, section 4, that we are a republic and no one responded. I posted it twice. Interesting.

Robert

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

so its confirmed , right wingers are lie without compuction

NO, what is confirmed, yet again, is that you are an abject retard who doesn't know dick.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

I posted article 4, section 4, that we are a republic and no one responded. I posted it twice. Interesting.

Robert

I've posted Article 4, section 4, several times and she will ignore it.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

so its confirmed , right wingers are lie without compuction

Wrong again. What is confirmed is that TDM are lie without compoilatitude.

Are lie without compuction?

 

[Liability]

so its confirmed , right wingers are lie without compuction

Wrong again. What is confirmed is that TDM are lie without compoilatitude.

Are lie without compuction?

The universal translator just melted.

 

[Liability]

I posted article 4, section 4, that we are a republic and no one responded. I posted it twice. Interesting.

Robert

I've posted Article 4, section 4, several times and she will ignore it.

In fairness, it seems certain she can't even comprehend it.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Wrong again. What is confirmed is that TDM are lie without compoilatitude.

Are lie without compuction?

The universal translator just melted.