Some Republicans have been defensive that the party has a strong anti-democratic bent. But the state GOP convention embraced it, writes columnist Danny Westneat.
That being said, you are a bad faith troll, I tell ye that...
n. intentional dishonest act by not fulfilling legal or contractual obligations, misleading another, entering into an agreement without the intention or means to fulfill it, or violating basic standards of honesty in dealing with others.
Tell us you are ignorant without telling us you are ignorant. A republic of any kind is a state in which the head of state is elected. The US is a representative constitutional republic in which the representatives and head of state are elected- at least that's the theory.
I think you’re seeing a real shift in conservative rhetoric because they are giving up on winning majorities. If you go back 50 years, books like The Emerging Republican Majority, and even around the period of George Bush, there was this idea, “OK, well, if Republicans want to keep winning majorities, we need to appeal more to the conservative Latino vote.” And the party has just gone in the opposite direction of that. It’s figuring out how to maintain dominance with a minority of support. And so, in that sense, I think the rhetoric is really telling. It’s a way of rationalizing the further entrenchment of minority rule.
A constitutional republic is a government in which officials are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to an existing constitution that limits the government's power over its citizens. Whereas Democracy is a tool to override the limits of the government's power over its citizens.
A constitutional republic is a government in which officials are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to an existing constitution that limits the government’s power over its citizens.
Democracy, in etymology, means rule of the people, even through representatives, in Greek, and I don't see restrictions of it being mutually exclusive