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Good luck with that. You better start now petitioning for amending the constitution accordingly. Takes 2/3rds vote of BOTH the House and the Senate to approve it, and then 3/4 of the state legislatures have to approve/ratify it.
What about Ann Coulters suggestion we repeal the right of women to vote, because they in many instances vote based on emotion, not logic or fact based reasoning?
Merriam-Webster is incorrect. That's not unusual since the publication of the Third Edition of the International Dictionary in 1961. They left out an additional definition of democracy as distinguished from republic. Both the Merriam-Webster Second International (1934) and OED II (1989) have included it. Dictionaries add definitions, but they do not drop them. It is acceptable to note that a definition is obsolete or archaic, but neither of the other two do this with democraacy.
Merriam-Webster is incorrect. That's not unusual since the publication of the Third Edition of the International Dictionary in 1961. They left out an additional definition of democracy as distinguished from republic. Both the Merriam-Webster Second International (1934) and OED II (1989) have included it. Dictionaries add definitions, but they do not drop them. It is acceptable to note that a definition is obsolete or archaic, but neither of the other two do this with democraacy.
There it is again, pure ignorance.
Read ANY dictionary.
We are a democracy.
A republic is one form of democracy. Specifically, it is a representative democracy.
Additionally, the US is often referred to as a democratic republic. This is a recognition of the fact that we are both a republic and a democracy.
Facts are hard sometimes, but they don't have to be.
Everytime someone comes out against voting rights, they get jumped on. Answer these two questions:
1. Why if the prefrontal cortex (reasoning, rationality) is not fully developed until age 25 should anyone under that age be allowed to make big decisions like voting?
2. Why should someone who pays no taxes have any say whatsoever in voting and consequently how other people's money will be spent?
Libs are funny:
If you point out that America is a Republic, they find proof that it is a democracy and declare that everyone who disagrees is ignorant.
But when they point out it is a republic, they are still right. And everyone else is still ignorant.
Everytime someone comes out against voting rights, they get jumped on. Answer these two questions:
1. Why if the prefrontal cortex (reasoning, rationality) is not fully developed until age 25 should anyone under that age be allowed to make big decisions like voting?
2. Why should someone who pays no taxes have any say whatsoever in voting and consequently how other people's money will be spent?
1. Why if the prefrontal cortex (reasoning, rationality) is not fully developed until age 25 should anyone under that age be allowed to make big decisions like getting married, having kids, having a job with responsibility, join the military, own a gun, drive a car, and so on, and so forth?
2. If you're referring to federal income taxes, then nobody should have been allowed to vote prior to the ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913. If you're referring to any taxes, even 18-year-olds buy gas, food, clothes and a whole lot of other things on which they pay taxes.
What about Ann Coulters suggestion we repeal the right of women to vote, because they in many instances vote based on emotion, not logic or fact based reasoning?
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Start with her.
I have a fantastic idea. If we are going to take away voting rights, let's start by taking them from those who want to deny them to others.
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