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America is NOT a Democracy

spree at Wake up America asks the question today Is America a Democracy? There's even a quick little poll on the site. My immediate answer was NO, it's a constitutional republic.

She goes on to answer the question herself. America is a constitutional republic. I think that's an important distiction, and apparently many of the leftists responsible for editing much of Wikipedia do too. (Not all of the editors at Wikipedia are leftists, but the ones that do the most damage to the site's content seem to be.)

Since I started writing this blog I've seen the Wikipedia article on constitutional republic change drastically. Currently the article is a fairly decent representation of what a constitutional republic actually is. Go back through the history of the article, and you'll find that it's been deprecated at times, and even redirected to other articles that basically took away it's meaning.

This is why I don't trust Wikipedia. The anarchic editing style of their site where anyone can make edits to pages simply can't be trusted. People with a political agenda can simply go in and modify the meaning of terms to fit their ideology.

After all, if you don't like the concept of constitutional limitations on the power of government, why not change the reference material so that it doesn't exist in the discussion of our own form of government?

You can't have a meaningful debate with people that refuse to accept facts. It's also pretty important to agree on the meaning of words and phrases. When one side edits the popular references to deliberately twist words to mean the opposite of what they mean to everyone else, debate isn't possible.

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spree responded with: Thanks

Thanks for the link and the mention. I have always wondered why people keep insisting we are a democracy instead of realizing that we use a democratic process for quite a bit but we are, in actuality a Constitutional Republic. Also a big thank you for letting me know my trackbacks were disabled on that post. .

Stanford Matthews responded with:

It has been suggested that this nation should adopt an approach to a true democracy by the use of available technology to decide matters by simple public majority vote. I am quite regularly disappointed in my elected representatives responses to my personal opinion and the obligatory thank you for my opinion but they are voting another way. An election in my local area was held yesterday. 25% of those eligible to vote did. I'm not sure I want the 25% deciding everything. They may be civilly invested for the wrong reasons as is evident by the election results. The election was for the highest office at the city and county level and several judicial positions including the State Supreme Court. The fact that only 1 in 4 eligible voters participated is again, absolutely intolerable. We are a nation of sheep.

Perri Nelson responded with:

I don't think that changing our system to a "pure" democracy is a good idea. Your recent election where 25% of the people voted is one reason, as is the statement that they may be civilly invested for the wrong reasons. One trend that bothers me is the move by some states to apportion their electoral votes based upon the nationwide popular vote. The 2000 election is often cited as a reason that this would be a good idea. I think it's just another attempt by the left to do an end-run around the constitution.

Angel responded with:

interesting slant Perri...have a blessed Holy week my friend!

Snooper responded with: True Democracy?

HEAVENS NO!!! A true democracy opens the door to rampant anarchy!! Good grief!! My major is in American Studies and American Government. I have two posts (in VERY condensed format) that explains what American government is. It is a matter of semantics, really, and this is where people get confused, INCLUDING politicians. We are a Federal Republic (Constitutional Republic) originally. It has morphed through the years thanks to the activist judges that usurped various authorities all in the name of diversity and the touchy-feely crowds. My posts are http://takeourcountryback.townhall.com/g/b8ef8024-6e21-41fa-96d7-b167626a3178 and http://takeourcountryback.townhall.com/g/62dcab9a-5379-460f-81de-594bbaa037b1 Again, they are very condensed. If they were not, they would be pages and pages with deep roots. If you find them useful use them all you need to. We the New Media MUST defeat and expose the Leftinistra before it is too late.

Perri Nelson responded with:

Before activist judges started turning the nation into a judicial oligarchy, the States and the Senate began slowly shifting it towards a pure democracy. The 17th amendment was proposed by a freshman senator who was elected to office by the people of his state rather than by the then constitutionally mandated method which required the state legislature to elect the senator. At the time, 29 state legislatures had abdicated their responsibility in this area. The 17th amendment was proposed in 1912, and by 1913 it had been ratified. In 1914, the people of the several states directly elected the senators, altering forever who the Senate was intended to represent. This marked the beginning of the erosion of state rights and was one of the two major factors that marked a shift from a true Republican form of government to a pure democracy and accellerated our nations slide into socialism. The other major factor was the provision in the 14th amendment that, while not mandating the people's election of Presidential and Vice Presidential electors strongly encouraged it. This clause also discouraged the State legislatures from choosing the electors themselves by reducing the State's allowed representation in proportion to the number of eligible voters that were not allowed to vote for electors. The States are no longer properly represented in the Republic, and we have moved further away from a Republican form of government because of the growing popularity of "pure" democracy.

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