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Old 09-17-2006, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Cerran";p=&quot View Post
Many people in the United States think we are a democracy. Those people are wrong. Our Founding Fathers were very familiar with history, and they knew the dangers inherent in a democracy.
I've heard all this crap many times before, and always from people who have no understanding of what the hell they are saying. For starters, those who think we are a democracy were taught the distinction between direct democracy and indirect, or representative, democracy. Those who think this country is a democracy know that it is a representative democracy. Since a representative democracy is the same (*)(*)(*)(*) thing as a republic, you are really adding no new information, just quibbling over a difference in nomenclature. NEXT!!!
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