The American Republic or a Socialist Democracy
The United States was founded as a Republic for the People,
by the People.
In a republic, an official set of fundamental laws, like the
U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, prohibits the government
from limiting or taking away certain “inalienable” rights of the
people, even if that government was freely chosen by a majority
of the people.
In a pure democracy, the voting majority has almost limitless
power over the minority.
The main difference between a democracy and a republic is the
extent to which the people control the process of making laws under
each form of government.
Pure Democracy Republic
Power Held the population Individual citizens
by as a whole
Making A voting majority has The people elect
Laws has almost unlimited representatives to
power to make laws make laws according
while minorities have to the constraints
few protections from of the Constitution
the will of the
majority
Ruled By The majority Laws made by elected
representatives of
the people.
Protection Rights can be overridden A constitution
of Rights by the will of the protects the rights
majority. of the people from
the will of the
majority.
The Concept of a Democracy
A pure democracy, all citizens who are eligible to vote take an
equal part in the process of making laws that govern them. A direct
democracy is where all citizens have the power to make all laws
directly at the ballot box. Some states empower citizens to make
state laws using ballot initiatives. Basically in a pure democracy
the majority truly does rule and the minority has little or no power.
In ancient Athens it's been called a "mobocracy where the public
voted on every law, where a majority has almost total control over
rights and freedoms.
The Concept of a Republic
In a republic, the people elect representatives to make the laws
laws and an executive to enforce those laws. While a majority still
rules in the selection of representatives, an official charter lists
and protects certain inalienable rights, that protects the minority
from the arbitrary political whims and wishes of the majority. So
republics like the United States function as “representative
democracies.”
In the U.S., senators and representatives are elected as
lawmakers, the president is the elected executive, and the
Constitution is the official charter.
The first documented representative democracy appeared in the
Roman Republic. Their constitution was mostly unwritten & enforced
by custom, outlining a system of checks and balances between the
different branches of government. This separation of governmental
remain a feature of almost all modern republics.
Is the United States a Republic or a Democracy?
The following statement is often used to define the United
States government system: "The United States is a republic, not a
democracy.”
This statement means the concepts and characteristics of
republics and democracies can never coexist as one form of
government. However, it's the case. Like the US, most republics
function as blended "representational democracies" featuring a
democracy’s political powers of the majority tempered by a
republic’s system of checks and balances enforced by a constitution
that protects the minority from the majority. So saying the United
States is strictly a democracy suggests that the minority is
completely unprotected from the will of the majority, which is
not correct.
Republics and Constitutions
The most unique feature of a Republic is it's constitution
enables it to protect a minority from the majority by interpreting
and, if necessary, overturning laws made by the elected
representatives of the people. The United States the Constitution
assigns this function to the U.S. Supreme Court and the lower
federal courts.
For example, in the 1954 case of Brown v. Board of Education, the
Supreme Court declared all state laws establishing separate racial
segregated public schools for black and white students to be
unconstitutional.
More recently, in the controversial Citizens United v. Federal
Election Commission case, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that federal
election laws prohibiting corporations from contributing to
political campaigns violated the corporations’ constitutional
rights of free speech under the First Amendment.
The constitutionally-granted power of the judicial branch to
overturn laws made by the legislative branch illustrates the unique
ability of a republic’s rule of law to protect the minority from a
pure democracy’s rule of the masses.
What this boils down to is that Democrats want to abandon the rule
of the law as written in the Constitution and make a few other very
profound changes that, regardless of the design and guidelines of
the actual Constitution, they will juggle the courts and number of
judges until they give themselves a majority.
That is probably as close to a mutiny of the American people solely
so they can destroy the economy with their corrupt agenda. An
obvious display of their lack of real concern for "we the people".
We must maintain our Republic. The words "for the people, by the
people" is what makes us all equal as stated in the Constitution.
We have to depend upon God to lift All true Americans out of
the evil, hatred and corruption trying to destroy decades of
freedoms.
Conservatively,
John
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