12-15-2004, 08:01 PM
"A Republic at war deals differently with setbacks than a democracy."<br>
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The United States is not a democracy. It is in fact a Republic. Per the CIA fact book www.cia.gov/cia/publicati...os/us.html is the USA is a "Constitution-based federal republic (with) strong democratic tradition."<br>
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In the a true democracy, the mob votes directly for its leader. This is not the case in the USA, where the public votes for electors, who then, at their will vote for the president. Even here in Canada, where we have what the CIA calls a "confederation with parliamentary democracy" we do not get to vote for our leader.<br>
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The United States is not a democracy. It is in fact a Republic. Per the CIA fact book www.cia.gov/cia/publicati...os/us.html is the USA is a "Constitution-based federal republic (with) strong democratic tradition."<br>
<br>
In the a true democracy, the mob votes directly for its leader. This is not the case in the USA, where the public votes for electors, who then, at their will vote for the president. Even here in Canada, where we have what the CIA calls a "confederation with parliamentary democracy" we do not get to vote for our leader.<br>
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