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I think this might meet all thr criteria you are looking for... The United States is not a Democracy, it is a Representative Republic. It happens to use _some_

I think this might meet all thr criteria you are looking for... The United States is not a Democracy, it is a Representative Republic. It happens to use _some_ bits from the democracy toolbox. As to any back-and-forth regarding people's rights being voted away and courts of law re-establishing them, there is the issue of slavery, and most recently, gay marriage.

js8 11y ago
> The United States is not a Democracy This is very obviously false. It may have been established with not that intent, but today (especially after progressive movement) it's one of the most advanced democracies in the world. Of course there is still a long way to go. For example, there is paper from Cato Institute that showed (on different U.S. states) more democracy leads to better management of state budget. > people's rights being voted away This is misrepresentation - people's right are not being voted away; what happens in these cases is that social progress is not as fast as some liberals would want. (In other words, there is a huge difference between regress and slow progress.) Democracies are conservative, as most normal people are (and this is arguably good engineering practice). And slavery was actually supported by the representation (you're actually contradicting yourself here a bit, if you want to blame democracy for slavery, then you shouldn't say that U.S. wasn't democracy).