Are we a Democracy or a Republic ? Whats your opinion ?
Tudie BN
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Welcome Friends to Tudies Questions ! Thanks for your reply ! : )
God only knows what we are now.
We are a nation of laws ... We do have a Law of the Land and it is called the Constitution.
http://www.c4cg.org/republic.htm
Canada and Australia are also nations of laws with constitutions!
Article 12. In the U.S.S.R. work is a duty and a matter of honour for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: "He who does not work, neither shall he eat."
I guess they DID have their good points
You may know very little about the United States, but you know nothing about countries like Canada and Australia, if you believe that they are ruled by "mobs" without constitutions and laws!
"Republic and democracy are descriptions of two different things (one is a form of goverment, the other is the system of goverment). As an example you have the former Soviet Union, which was a republic, but not a democracy. You also have India, which is a democracy but not a republic. The US is both. N. Korea is neither."
Article 39. A law is considered adopted if passed by both Chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. by a simple majority vote in each.
read the entire thing-
http://www.politicsforum.org/... this is a democracy- then read N Korea or Cuba
de·moc·ra·cy /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/ Show Spelled[dih-mok-ruh-see] Show IPA
noun, plural de·moc·ra·cies.
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.
3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
4. political or social equality; democratic spirit.
5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.
[END QUOTE http://dictionary.reference.c... ]
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re·pub·lic /rɪˈpʌblɪk/ Show Spelled[ri-puhb-lik] Show IPA
noun
1. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
2. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
3. a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state.
4. ( initial capital letter ) any of the five periods of republican government in France. Compare First Republic, Second Republic, Third Republic, Fourth Republic, Fifth Republic.
5. ( initial capital l...
de·moc·ra·cy /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/ Show Spelled[dih-mok-ruh-see] Show IPA
noun, plural de·moc·ra·cies.
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.
3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
4. political or social equality; democratic spirit.
5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.
[END QUOTE http://dictionary.reference.c... ]
[QUOTE]
re·pub·lic /rɪˈpʌblɪk/ Show Spelled[ri-puhb-lik] Show IPA
noun
1. a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them.
2. any body of persons viewed as a commonwealth.
3. a state in which the head of government is not a monarch or other hereditary head of state.
4. ( initial capital letter ) any of the five periods of republican government in France. Compare First Republic, Second Republic, Third Republic, Fourth Republic, Fifth Republic.
5. ( initial capital letter, italics ) a philosophical dialogue (4th century b.c.) by Plato dealing with the composition and structure of the ideal state.
[END QUOTE http://dictionary.reference.c... ]
Because the United States of America is BOTH:
". . . a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system."
AND ALSO:
". . . a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them,"
the United States is both a republic and a democracy.
"Republic and democracy are descriptions of two different things (one is a form of goverment, the other is the system of goverment). As an example you have the former Soviet Union, which was a republic, but not a democracy. You also have India, which is a democracy but not a republic. The US is both. N. Korea is neither."
One of my all time favorites from Jefferson...
"If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
--Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address)
He was a witty fella.
http://www.c4cg.org/republic.htm
"The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence."
http://www.c4cg.org/republic.htm
also for the quote claiming to be from Jefferson on the site.
has also been claimed to of been said by Franklin and Tyndale by others.