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... this is a Constitutional Representative Republic.
I stand corrected.
We do not govern this nation through plebiscite. It would appear to have been impractical.
In a Constitutional Representative Republic the people have a right to review and appraise the performance of their elected officials.
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Originally Posted by Redraven
The founders of our country hated and feared democracy.
Some did... They were more concerned with 'dangerous leveling', which is more of an economic issue.
Thanks to men like Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson (Mr Trump's favorite, it seems) and many other good people through the years we have as democratic a republic as can be had under this constitution. I am personally grateful for it.
It is for this reason that the faction with Thomas Jefferson and the party of Andrew Jackson were known as the Democratic-Republicans, as opposed to other types of republicans who did not share their democratic inclinations.
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Amendments extending the vote: 15th, 17th, 19th and 26th.
Pence is a good man, but Republicans are much more loyal towards Trump than Pence. Trump has united Republicans and given them more power than they have had in generations. He has brought a completely different vision and level of energy. Liberal news conspiracies are nothing but a sideshow.
Republicans will not ask Trump to step down. That is just dreaming.
This power you attribute to republicans, is like a muscle-car with a big engine and a blown transmission. It's not going anywhere.
It looks like solid stuff, but the fissure is lengthening and it should eventually begin to shatter...
It's like that extra-wide joint expansion and unexpected high wind-shear that brought down the Space Shuttle Challenger. Everything looked good and solid until moments before everything went bad. The flaws were in the design, because they didn't accommodate a worst-case scenario, when several extreme things happened, all together.
In this political scenario, those who conspired were supposed to escape detection. Those on the inside were supposed to keep quiet and not leak damning information. And the cloud of scattered information was not supposed to coalesce into undeniable evidence.
Somehow I get the feeling it has more to do with the fact that 'Republic' is part of the word 'Republican' and 'Democracy' is related semantically to 'Democrat'?
The country is coming apart people and we are a lot closer to anarchy and/or civil strife than you can imagine. The level of hate is mind boggling, the left will not let Trump do his job and is doing everything in their power to get him out -- despite the fact that he's only been in there for 6 weeks.
If they succeed in removing him........ I will never cast a vote again for any candidate of any party in this rotten system.
Have you not realized yet that Trump has no idea what his job is? Comes from being the most woefully unqualified and least experienced person ever elected? The guy ran a family owned company with few employees and sub-contracted everything else. Very little experience being an actual LEADER. What did you expect?
No way Trump is going to be forced out...relax. We'll fight these liberals if they try.
Liberals? lol if Trump gets pushed out it will be by members of his own party in Congress, what are you going to do bring your guns to the House of Reps and have a 'shoot out'?
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