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conix, Ho Hum .. Repeat excerpts of --- hap, ‘America Is a Republic, Not a Democracy’ Is a Dangerous—And Wrong—Argument
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What you fail to understand is that even though you say you support the constitution in fact you support a perversion of it. In fact your representatives could vote to fairly tax windfall profits to give back to the people some of the excess profit scammed from them by overly greedy individuals.
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When founding thinkers such as James Madison spoke of democracy, they were usually referring to direct democracy, what Madison frequently labeled “pure” democracy. Madison made the distinction between a republic and a direct democracy exquisitely clear in “Federalist No. 14 .. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed14.asp ”: “In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region.” Both a democracy and a republic were popular forms of government: Each drew its legitimacy from the people and depended on rule by the people. The crucial difference was that a republic relied on representation, while in a “pure” democracy, the people represented themselves.
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High-minded claims that we are not a democracy surreptitiously fuse republic with minority rule rather than popular government. Enabling sustained minority rule at the national level is not a feature of our constitutional design, but a perversion of it. Routine minority rule is neither desirable nor sustainable, and makes it difficult to characterize the country as either a democracy or a republic. We should see this as a constitutional failure demanding constitutional reform.

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"Listen, Aussie. Listen closely. YOU do not know anything about a Constitutional Republic.
We are a nation of laws--not of majority rule with no voice for minorities and minority opinions. "
P - I have stated clearly that I do not support Trump--but I would NEVER for a Progressive Marxist like you.

Sorry flip. You are the only one in history who has labelled me a progressive Marxist. You are that special.

conix = Sanctimonious dill. Always in a pickle.