Reminding us about democracy (Representatives, Congress, CNN, revolution)
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Just want to mention something on PBS tonight, depending on your local station. And probably re-broadcast within a week, if you miss it.
If you are familiar with PBS, you know their documentaries are generally excellent.
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing A More Perfect Union
Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of civil rights progress and backlash, the 2021 Capitol riot and beyond. https://www.pbs.org/video/preserving...review-js5xog/
I remember PBS. We are reminded that democracy gives a person a right to own a property and purchase it. Unlike some countries the citizens of that country have no rights to any land and to own it. They are born into a caste system where they owner owns the land and leases or rent it out forever to the tenants. China is this country.
Just want to mention something on PBS tonight, depending on your local station. And probably re-broadcast within a week, if you miss it.
If you are familiar with PBS, you know their documentaries are generally excellent.
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing A More Perfect Union
Follow the pursuit of democracy from the Revolutionary War through recurring cycles of civil rights progress and backlash, the 2021 Capitol riot and beyond. https://www.pbs.org/video/preserving...review-js5xog/
PBS?
Are you kidding? They are a parody of themselves when they talk about "democracy" while at the same time touting marxist ideology.
Our country was never founded as or intended to be a Democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic.
Quote:
Constitutional Republic:
A Constitutional Republic is a form of government where the head of state and other officials are elected as representatives of the people, representatives mandated to govern according to existing constitutional law. It is because of this mandate that the elected class in a Constitutional Republic is limited in their power over the citizenry. The United States of America was created as and intended to survive as a Constitutional Republic.
Our Constitutional Republic is separated into three separate but equal branches of government; the Executive, Legislative and Judicial, represented by the Presidency, Congress and the Courts. Because of this no branch has a rein on absolute power thus assuring that there will be checks and balances to the governmental system and protection for the rule of law.
Through the elected representation employed by our Constitutional Republic the influence of the majority is tempered by protections for individual rights as mandated by constitutional law. Our form of government is deliberate in its attempt to thwart majoritarianism, thereby protecting political dissent and individuals and minority groups from the "tyranny of the majority" by placing checks on the power of the majority of the population. The power of the majority of the people is checked by limiting that power to electing representatives who are required to legislate with limits of overarching constitutional law which a simple majority cannot modify.
"A pure unbridled democracy is a political system in which the majority enjoys absolute power by means of democratic elections. In an unvarnished democracy, unrestrained by a constitution, the majority can vote to impose tyranny on themselves and the minority opposition. They can vote to elect those who will infringe upon our inalienable God-given rights. Thomas Jefferson referred to this as elected despotism in Notes on the State of Virginia (also cited in Federalist 48 by Madison):"
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