Author Topic: We're going to get government out of the way  (Read 156 times)

Offline Don Houston

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Re: We're going to get government out of the way
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2012, 12:27:05 pm »
First off, if everyone studied what the founders really wanted, they would soon learn that a Democracy was not it.  Our founders wanted a Republic,

Definitions from Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com)

Definition of DEMOCRACY
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a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority
b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections

Definition of REPUBLIC

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a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president
(2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government
 b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law
(2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government

We have a republic for a reason.  Why everyone wants to call it a democracy is beyond me, but according to the founders and what they wanted, they did not ever want a democracy.  In fact, historically speaking, a Democracy has failed almost everytime it has been used
Don E Houston Jr




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