democracies and republics

Shrykull · Post by **Shrykull** » 2003-05-25 06:24pm

I heard that the united states is not a true democracy, a true democracy I guess would have people serving like how jurors serve in court perhaps? That's it's a federal republic instead.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-05-25 06:29pm

Yes. And?

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-05-25 06:30pm

Your point being?

jezrianna · Post by **jezrianna** » 2003-05-25 07:20pm

Strictly speaking, the US is not a democracy, were in every citizen would vote on...EVERYTHING. Rather, we choose representatives to govern on our behalf. So we are a republic.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-05-25 07:26pm

no, were not a democracy. yes, we're a republic. and unfortunately there are no entrance exams.

NapoleonGH · Post by **NapoleonGH** » 2003-05-25 08:44pm

jezrianna wrote:Strictly speaking, the US is not a democracy, were in every citizen would vote on...EVERYTHING. Rather, we choose representatives to govern on our behalf. So we are a republic.

well actually we could be a true democracy without everyone voting on everything. You could do it Athens style where you have the law making people be randomly selected from the population of the country, for a specific term, say 1 year.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-05-25 09:03pm

No, the US is not a democracy, thankfully. Otherwise we'd be too busy having referendums to ever get anything done!

EDIT: Put a "not" in front of democracy, fixed some grammar.