Re: The Reason Democrats Are Backing Gay Rights and Marijuana Legalization
Attacking me and calling me names does not erase the two recent threads where you said it was a debatable issue and you gave post after post after post after post in which you criticized our government for being democratic. I provided both thread links. I provided exact posts from you in which you did that to call doubt upon if we were a republic or not.
Why are you not trying to disown your own recent views? Here is just a part of them
But even with your unfounded anger and irresponsible name calling against me and the personal attacks, I will be the bigger man and repeat that I am glad to see you have returned to the path of reality Herr Barkmann and have abandoned your more recent doubts about the USA and its form of government expressed over and over and over and over again by you in the two threads I cited this very morning. I guess a temporary lapse in judgment is acceptable if you have returned to the path of truth and reality. glad to have you back.
because you are dishonest, by stating i don't believe the u.s. is a republican form of government, and i have been saying that for 1 1/2 years, and you know it!
here is a pretty present for you hay!
John Adams wrote in 1806: "I once thought our Constitution was quasi or
mixed government, but they (Republicans) have now made it, to all intents and purposes, in virtue, in spirit, and in effect, a democracy. We are left without resources but in our prayers and tears, and have nothing that we can do or say, but the Lord have mercy on us."
James Madison from the federalist paper #40 --THE second point to be examined is, whether the [ constitutional ]convention were authorized to frame and propose this
mixed Constitution.
Patrick Henry, Virginia Ratifying Convention--4--12 June 1788 --But, Sir, we have the consolation that it is a
mixed Government: That is, it may work sorely on your neck; but you will have some comfort by saying, that it was a Federal Government in its origin.
here is
Wikipedia, which you
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STATED WAS A VERIFIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION
MIXED GOVERNMENT
Mixed government, also known as a mixed constitution, is a form of government that integrates elements of democracy, aristocracy, and monarchy. In a mixed government, some issues (often defined in a constitution) are decided by the majority of the people, some other issues by few, and some other issues by a single person (also often defined in a constitution). The idea is commonly treated as an antecedent of separation of powers.
Renaissance and Enlightenment
Cicero became extremely well regarded during the Renaissance and many of his ideas were embraced. Polybius was also rediscovered and the positive view of mixed governments became a central aspect of Renaissance political science integrated into the developing notion of republicanism. Mixed government theories became extremely popular in the Enlightenment and were discussed in detail by Hobbes, Locke, Vico, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Kant. Apart from his contemporaries, only Montesquieu became widely acknowledged as the author of a concept of separation of powers (although he wrote rather on their "distribution").[citation needed]
According to some scholars[who?] the notion also influenced the writers of the United States Constitution who based the idea of checks and balances upon the ancient theory. The constitution of Britain during the Victorian Era with a Parliament composed of the Sovereign (monarchy), a House of Lords (aristocracy) and House of Commons (democracy) is a prime example of a mixed constitution in the 19th century.
Father of the American constitution James Madison in federalist paper #40 states the constitutional convention of 1787 created a
mixed constitution and well as Madison's reference to Polybius in federalist paper #63.
Modern views
One school of scholarship, based mainly in the United States, consider
mixed government to be the central characteristic of a republic, and hold that the U.S. has rule by the one (the President), the few (the Senate, which was originally supposed to represent the States), and the many (House of Representatives). According to Frank Lovett this school is largely defunct.[1]
Yet another school of thought in the United States says the Supreme Court has taken on the role of "The Best" in recent decades, ensuring a continuing separation of authority by offsetting the direct election of senators and preserving the mixing of
Democracy, Aristocracy, and Monarchy, and Military divisions of the federal government.
Mixed government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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