Post by The Resister on Sept 22, 2023 14:33:56 GMT
I had to mention race, but right now we are going to pivot to another subject. We WILL revisit the race issue later in this thread.
It has become fashionable to have this country described as a "representative democracy." The fact is we can debate that all day long. Basically there are at least two governments operating in the United States: an illegal / de facto / unconstitutional government and the legal / de jure / constitutional government. Let's be accurate. Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States states:
"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." (Emphasis mine, of course)
Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation or the Constitution of the United States do we find a reference to a "democracy." As a matter of fact, the founders of this country despised democracy as a form of government:
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." James Madison For this quote and many more:
www.ranker.com/list/founding-fathers-anti-democracy-quotes/melissa-sartore
Also check this out:
www.dailysignal.com/2020/12/08/3-quotes-from-founding-fathers-remind-us-why-we-are-a-constitutional-republic-not-a-democracy/
When people tell you we are a "representative democracy," it would mean that an unconstitutional government is operating in the United States. Let's talk about the fundamental difference between our constitutional Republic and a "representative democracy." Let's begin with the birthing document of the United States called the Declaration of Independence. The DOI lists the reasons we separated from King George and sought to create our own nation. We find this in the DOI:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-"
The colonists went to war on the presupposition that man is born with unalienable Rights, that is Rights given by a Creator (your God, whomever you deem that to be) and as such those Rights are above the reach of government. THAT is the primary and fundamental difference between a constitutional Republic and a "representative democracy." In order to guarantee those unalienable Rights, they were codified in the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights absolutely guarantees that there is a limitation on the powers of government. The only way to change the Bill of Rights is to amend the Constitution. That procedure takes more than a simple majority. There is another difference between a constitutional republic and a "representative democracy." We also did not have a direct election of U.S. Senators (that was changed by amending the Constitution.) We still have the electoral college which prevents the direct election of a president. In short, we did not create a government where a simple majority can change our form of government OR deprive us of our unalienable Rights. But, the next time I post you have to hear the rest of the story....
It has become fashionable to have this country described as a "representative democracy." The fact is we can debate that all day long. Basically there are at least two governments operating in the United States: an illegal / de facto / unconstitutional government and the legal / de jure / constitutional government. Let's be accurate. Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States states:
"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." (Emphasis mine, of course)
Nowhere in the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation or the Constitution of the United States do we find a reference to a "democracy." As a matter of fact, the founders of this country despised democracy as a form of government:
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." James Madison For this quote and many more:
www.ranker.com/list/founding-fathers-anti-democracy-quotes/melissa-sartore
Also check this out:
www.dailysignal.com/2020/12/08/3-quotes-from-founding-fathers-remind-us-why-we-are-a-constitutional-republic-not-a-democracy/
When people tell you we are a "representative democracy," it would mean that an unconstitutional government is operating in the United States. Let's talk about the fundamental difference between our constitutional Republic and a "representative democracy." Let's begin with the birthing document of the United States called the Declaration of Independence. The DOI lists the reasons we separated from King George and sought to create our own nation. We find this in the DOI:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-"
The colonists went to war on the presupposition that man is born with unalienable Rights, that is Rights given by a Creator (your God, whomever you deem that to be) and as such those Rights are above the reach of government. THAT is the primary and fundamental difference between a constitutional Republic and a "representative democracy." In order to guarantee those unalienable Rights, they were codified in the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights absolutely guarantees that there is a limitation on the powers of government. The only way to change the Bill of Rights is to amend the Constitution. That procedure takes more than a simple majority. There is another difference between a constitutional republic and a "representative democracy." We also did not have a direct election of U.S. Senators (that was changed by amending the Constitution.) We still have the electoral college which prevents the direct election of a president. In short, we did not create a government where a simple majority can change our form of government OR deprive us of our unalienable Rights. But, the next time I post you have to hear the rest of the story....