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>"What does democracy have to do with it" democracy = everybody gets a vote. If we where a democracy, I did not get to vote, because I was not allowed to see t
by kls 17y ago
>"What does democracy have to do with it"
democracy = everybody gets a vote. If we where a democracy, I did not get to vote, because I was not allowed to see the text of the subject to make an informed decision.
Anyway, we are not a democracy we are a republic which is evident by the fact that I did not get a vote on the issue. The elected leaders did and this is the problem with a republic over a democracy, someone is doing the voting for you and after that someone has received your vote to put them their they tend to forget about the people that got them there.
- salvadors 17y agoYou seem to be confusing several different concepts. Most countries have representative democracy, rather than direct democracy. This is largely orthogonal to the issue of being a republic, which (in this context, and in over-simplified terms) simply means that there are certain things that even a majority vote can't achieve, as the majority is also bound by the Constitution (in an attempt to avoid the classic problem of two wolves and a sheep voting for what to have for dinner)
- forensic 17y agoa constitutional republic != a republic != a democracy != representative democracy
- eru 17y agoAnd pairwise, too.
- gnaritas 17y agosimply means that there are certain things that even a majority vote can't achieve, as the majority is also bound by the Constitution Not really, even the Constitution is amendable by a super majority. You should have said a simple majority.