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We are a representative republic. Part of that reason is because it is too burdensome to expect the general public to have the information and expertise to be
by slg 6y ago
We are a representative republic. Part of that reason is because it is too burdensome to expect the general public to have the information and expertise to be fully involved in governance. We delegate that responsibility to our representatives.
EDIT: I removed a line that was superfluous to my point and was drawing attention away from my actual point.
- welterde 6y agoThis gets repeated again and again, but is just wrong. The USA is both a representative democracy and a republic - the same as most other democracies on this planet. Republic just means that the government is a public affair - there is no monarch. It's the opposite of a monarchy.
- slg 6y agoYou are missing the point of my comment. The main focus is not the distinction between democracy and republic. It was that we do not govern ourselves directly. We elect people to do that for us because most of us aren't equipped to do it ourselves. The comment I was replying to called that fascism. I removed the "We are not a democracy." line in my previous comment to refocus it on what I was really trying to say.
- yrimaxi 6y agoThese kind of comments always get downvoted but it is pretty accurate. Certainly people like Madison didn’t want a thriving, egalitarian, democratic, civic culture and nation.
- dane-pgp 6y ago"But a representative democracy, where the right of election is well secured and regulated & the exercise of the legislative, executive and judiciary authorities, is vested in select persons, chosen really and not nominally by the people, will in my opinion be most likely to be happy, regular and durable." -- Alexander Hamilton https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-0162 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-01-02-01...
- yrimaxi 6y agoAha. So you agree.