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<blockquote data-quote="Turdferguson" data-source="post: 4027091" data-attributes="member: 61703"><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6590b237ef05" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6590b237ef05</a></p><p>I know it's the Washington Post so it must be "fake news but.</p><p></p><p>"But there is no basis for saying that the United States is somehow “not a democracy, but a republic.” “Democracy” and “republic” aren’t just words that a speaker can arbitrarily define to mean something (e.g., defining democracy as “a form of government in which all laws are made directly by the people”). They are terms that have been given meaning by English speakers more broadly. And both today and in the Framing era, “democracy” has been generally understood to include representative democracy as well as direct democracy"</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And why do we promote democracy if we aren't one?</p><p><a href="https://www.state.gov/j/drl/democ/" target="_blank">Democracy</a></p><p></p><p>Y'all will argue over the stupidest <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> on here.....lord you cant beat this for free entertainment</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Turdferguson, post: 4027091, member: 61703"] [URL]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6590b237ef05[/URL] I know it's the Washington Post so it must be "fake news but. "But there is no basis for saying that the United States is somehow “not a democracy, but a republic.” “Democracy” and “republic” aren’t just words that a speaker can arbitrarily define to mean something (e.g., defining democracy as “a form of government in which all laws are made directly by the people”). They are terms that have been given meaning by English speakers more broadly. And both today and in the Framing era, “democracy” has been generally understood to include representative democracy as well as direct democracy" And why do we promote democracy if we aren't one? [URL='https://www.state.gov/j/drl/democ/']Democracy[/URL] Y'all will argue over the stupidest :censored: on here.....lord you cant beat this for free entertainment [/QUOTE]
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