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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 3858800" data-attributes="member: 63706">Google uses a wikctionary, so defintions can be influenced by users, which I suppose is more democratic, but can lead to misunderstandings.Google&#039;s definition of republic is:&quot;a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.&quot;What I wrote isn&#039;t inconsistent with that, but I failed to emphasize the concept that power is held by the people. Obviously our system has degraded over time.It was designed specifically to make it difficult to change anything. Jefferson advocated a complete overhaul of the government every generation or so. Lysander Spooner saw the constitution as a contract that people are born into. As such we are all forced into a contractual relationship without our consent, which ought to nullify the constitution all together.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 3858800, member: 63706"] Google uses a wikctionary, so defintions can be influenced by users, which I suppose is more democratic, but can lead to misunderstandings. Google's definition of republic is: "a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch." What I wrote isn't inconsistent with that, but I failed to emphasize the concept that power is held by the people. Obviously our system has degraded over time. It was designed specifically to make it difficult to change anything. Jefferson advocated a complete overhaul of the government every generation or so. Lysander Spooner saw the constitution as a contract that people are born into. As such we are all forced into a contractual relationship without our consent, which ought to nullify the constitution all together. [/QUOTE]

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