The “Power of the Purse” applies to more than just congress. Every time we spend a dollar, that is a vote FOR something! Please vote with your dollars for YOUR values! AMERICA WINS! The FREE World WINS!!
You can make all the "good" excuses you want to, twist it this way and that, this is not of God. Confusion is from the devil. You are confusing the issue whether or not you realize it. Simply put, the United States of America is a Constitutional Republic...period! We have a Constitution, we have an Electoral college which does not make up a "democracy". WHY would you even want to create confusion and lies where there need not be??
Again, please stop spreading the lie that we are a democracy. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, WE ARE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, ALWAYS HAS BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE. Just call it for what it is!
Yes, you're right. We were created as a republic, since we do indeed vote for representatives, not (usually) for laws directly.
But let me point out two things. The first is that the definition of "democracy" has shifted over the years, as words often do.
From Miriam-Webster's definition of democracy: "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." Or the Cambridge dictionary: "the belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of government based on this belief, in which power is either held by elected representatives or directly by the people themselves." -- that's us!
So "democracy" has a couple related definitions. We're certainly not a direct democracy, all deciding every issue, but unquestionably a representative one.
In the Founding Fathers day, the phrase "republic" was largely synonymous with our modern definition of democracy, as James Madison (and others) make clear in the Federalist Papers, defining "republic" similar to Websters/Cambridge/others, an elected "body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country."
Given the similarities, I gravitate towards democracy, because people more clearly understand what I'm talking about, referring to the government rising from the rights of the people, not the other way around. That's what made us unique both in 1776 and today.
These days, using the word republic doesn't convey that as clearly, especially when dictatorial republics abound. Iran and North Korea call themselves "republics", as does the world's most populous country, the People's Republic of China.
The “Power of the Purse” applies to more than just congress. Every time we spend a dollar, that is a vote FOR something! Please vote with your dollars for YOUR values! AMERICA WINS! The FREE World WINS!!
You can make all the "good" excuses you want to, twist it this way and that, this is not of God. Confusion is from the devil. You are confusing the issue whether or not you realize it. Simply put, the United States of America is a Constitutional Republic...period! We have a Constitution, we have an Electoral college which does not make up a "democracy". WHY would you even want to create confusion and lies where there need not be??
Again, please stop spreading the lie that we are a democracy. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY, WE ARE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, ALWAYS HAS BEEN, ALWAYS WILL BE. Just call it for what it is!
Dear Mr LaCorte,
Our Founding Fathers went to great lengths to ensure that we are a REPUBLIC and NOT a democracy, God forbid.
In fact, the word democracy does NOT appear anywhere in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution or any other of our founding documents.
WE ARE NOT A DEMOCRACY, FIRST GRADE HISTORY. PLEASE STOP SPREADING THESE LIES AROUND!!
Thank you so much.
D.Y.
New Jersey
Yes, you're right. We were created as a republic, since we do indeed vote for representatives, not (usually) for laws directly.
But let me point out two things. The first is that the definition of "democracy" has shifted over the years, as words often do.
From Miriam-Webster's definition of democracy: "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." Or the Cambridge dictionary: "the belief in freedom and equality between people, or a system of government based on this belief, in which power is either held by elected representatives or directly by the people themselves." -- that's us!
So "democracy" has a couple related definitions. We're certainly not a direct democracy, all deciding every issue, but unquestionably a representative one.
In the Founding Fathers day, the phrase "republic" was largely synonymous with our modern definition of democracy, as James Madison (and others) make clear in the Federalist Papers, defining "republic" similar to Websters/Cambridge/others, an elected "body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country."
Given the similarities, I gravitate towards democracy, because people more clearly understand what I'm talking about, referring to the government rising from the rights of the people, not the other way around. That's what made us unique both in 1776 and today.
These days, using the word republic doesn't convey that as clearly, especially when dictatorial republics abound. Iran and North Korea call themselves "republics", as does the world's most populous country, the People's Republic of China.
Anyhow, that's my thinking.
Hopefully tonite Victory