Originally Posted by
Magaraja
Why is it so important for some American conservatives to insist on this claim? As far as I know, the only significant respect in which the US is not a pure democracy is the collegiate system of presidential elections. Is that what this is all about?
If I said that the UK is a monarchy, not a democracy, that would be regarded as very odd, because for a century or more it has been both of those things, and nobody - certainly not conservatives - would claim otherwise. I might add that it has enjoyed freedom from arbitrary rule for much longer. That indeed is not the same thing as democracy, although the terms are often confused.
Any ideas?
Though the nation's governing body "representatives" are elected by a popular "democratic" vote, No elected representative is sworn to the directive of a majority of the people. Every representative is sworn to represent the people within the confines of the "constitutional rule of law." America is designed as a Constitutional Republic who's people are represented by democratic elections of representatives sworn to govern by a "Constitution."
"Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."
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