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What is America?

What is America?

  • A democracy.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • A republic.

    Votes: 3 20.0%

  • A mixture of the two(explain)/other

    Votes: 12 80.0%
  • Total voters
    15
Wake said:
Are we a democracy? A republic? A mixture?

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Basically, what are we?
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We are technically a republic. A real democracy is one where the the people vote on every issue. In some ways that can be better than a republic, but you have to have constitutional limits to avoid the tyranny of the majority. Notice, I said technically a republic, because I think right now we are a plutocracy.
 
I believe America is a democratic republic. Which just basically means that we have a representative democracy. Rather than everyone voting on every issue, we elect representatives to vote on those issues for us (mostly.)

To answer your question, I think we're a bit of both.
 
We are a democratic republic. Its pretty obvious..
 
A set of two continents.
 
We're officially a democratic republic, but in reality we're more of a corporatism.
 
America is a Constitutional, Democratic, Republic, but America is an idea of hopes and dreams.
 
we are a democratic republic under a constitution
 
A place that is even less free, fair, and backwards than our original oppressors at this point.
 
All democracies, as long as they aren't electing a heriditary monarch (and ending the democracy) are republics.

A republic is just a form of government without hereditary monarchs -- it is a very broad category.

The U.S. is a republic with a government that includes democratic processes, but it can't simply be called "a democracy."

Representative democracy fits better. Representative federal constitutional republic is even closer, but that's a lot of damn words.
 
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All democracies, as long as they aren't electing a heriditary monarch (and ending the democracy) are republics.
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Canada is a Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy, not a Republic.
 
Temporal said:
Canada is a Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutional Monarchy, not a Republic.
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Yeah, y'all still affiliate yourselves with "that foreign queen." :mrgreen:

Like us, you have democratic elements in your gov't, but Canada's not just a democracy.
 
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The reality of our practices aside, we are supposed to be a democratic republic. Predominantly republic, with democratic attributes.
 
Wake said:
Basically, what are we?
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Basically, this:

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....oh, and to answer your question, a federal republic.
 
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Jeezy said:
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I sure am glad we didn't pick the turkey as our national symbol..

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...just not the same.
 
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atrasicarius said:
Actually, I think we look a little more like this:
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You're a fat kid?

Nah, speak your yourself. I'm an eagle. SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
 
It's an exploitocracy controlled by FAT CATS and union buster tea party radicals.

Be lazy, stunt growth - Work Union!
 
America is an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take
it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified
at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?
ARTHUR: I am your king!
WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.
ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.
WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,
[angels sing]
her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur
from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I,
Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.
[singing stops]
That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power
derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical
aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power
just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just
because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd
put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system!
HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that,
eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me,
you saw it didn't you?
 
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