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The point of making the distinction is to emphasize where the power actually lies.
by rosser 13y ago
The point of making the distinction is to emphasize where the power actually lies.
- alexqgb 13y agoThere is no "the power" in a system of divided government. That's the whole point of a system of divided government. Power is distributed. The people have some, their representatives have some, the judiciary has some, the executive has some, the press has some, etc. Ideally, the distribution is designed in a way that maintains a stable set of checks and balances between the various centers. More to the point, "Democracy" has a fairly broad meaning, and encompasses a range of systems and traditions. You'd have to be exceedingly pedantic to insist that using it to describe any form aside from a pure, direct democracy is a misuse of language.
- baddox 13y agoAnyone can argue all day over the semantics of "where the power actually lies." I would say that it lies in the hands of people who frequently use physical weapons to harm and threaten to harm others, which for the most part is government.