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The point of a Republic is to temper the temporary fashions in political thinking with adherence to inviolable principles.
by LordKano 11y ago
The point of a Republic is to temper the temporary fashions in political thinking with adherence to inviolable principles.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> The point of a Republic is to temper the temporary fashions in political thinking with adherence to inviolable principles. That's arguably the point of a constitutional representative democracy as composed to an unlimited-powers direct democracy; as both of those are within the scope of systems to which the label "Republic" applies (as are many others), its a pretty odd notion to consider it the point of "a Republic" in any general sense, though it might be the point of the particular design of a particular republic.
- philwelch 11y agoNo, the point of a republic is to abolish the monarchy. That's literally all the word means, in practice. It has nothing to do with granting more political power to people in Wyoming or Rhode Island than people in New York. There are certain fundamental principles that this country was founded on, but some things were just 18th century political concessions.