b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 1 How often have you heard people refer to America as a Democracy? When was
the last time that you heard America referred to as a Republic? There is a
very good reason that our Pledge of Allegiance refers to our country as a
Republic and there is a very good reason that our Declaration of
Independence and our constitution do not even mentioned the word "democracy"
.
Many people are under the false impression our form of government is a
democracy, or representative democracy. This is of course completely untrue.
The Founders were extremely knowledgeable about the issue of democracy and
feared a democracy as much as a monarchy. They understood that the only
entity that can take away the people's freedom is their own government,
either by being too weak to protect them from external threats or by
becoming too powerful and taking over every aspect of life.
They knew very well the meaning of the word "democracy", and the history of
democracies; and they were deliberately doing everything in their power to
prevent having a democracy.
In a Republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves. In a
Republic, one may act on his own or through his representatives when he
chooses to solve a problem. The people have no obligation to the government;
instead, the government is a servant of the people, and obliged to its
owner, We the People. Many politicians have lost sight of that fact.
A Constitutional Republic has some similarities to democracy in that it uses
democratic processes to elect representatives and pass new laws, etc. The
critical difference lies in the fact that a Constitutional Republic has a
Constitution that limits the powers of the government. It also spells out
how the government is structured, creating checks on its power and balancing
power between the different branches.
The goal of a Constitutional Republic was to avoid the dangerous extreme of
either tyranny or mobocracy but what exists in America today is a far cry
from the Constitutional Republic our forefathers brought forth. |
f******t
发帖数: 19544 | 2 笑话，难道民主是你定义的？美国就是民主的，民主就是这样的。 |
b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 3 Democracy is evil.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/united-states-r
【在 f******t 的大作中提到】
: 笑话，难道民主是你定义的？美国就是民主的，民主就是这样的。
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 4 A "democracy"? Sure. That's how we choose most of our higher level
representatives. But, first and foremost, a "constitutional republic"--with
the emphasis on constitutional. That's what bugs me when we run around the
world extolling the need for "democracy." It fails to emphasize the
importance of the whole constitution and rule-of-law thing, without which
democracy is ... well, not necessarily a good thing (or, at least, not
likely a very long lasting thing). |
C*******f
发帖数: 13152 | 5 别笑，美国是民主的标杆民主的灯塔，民主哦证都是美国发的，你敢说美国不民主？那
也是你对民主的理解有问题，改改就好了，有民主证的都什么样，民主就什么样，不就
好咯。 |
b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 6 Is the United States a democracy?
http://www.thisnation.com/question/011.html
The Pledge of Allegiance includes the phrase: "and to the republic for which
it stands." Is the United States of America a republic? I always thought it
was a democracy? What's the difference between the two?
The United States is, indeed, a republic, not a democracy. Accurately
defined, a democracy is a form of government in which the people decide
policy matters directly--through town hall meetings or by voting on ballot
initiatives and referendums. A republic, on the other hand, is a system in
which the people choose representatives who, in turn, make policy decisions
on their behalf. The Framers of the Constitution were altogether fearful of
pure democracy. Everything they read and studied taught them that pure
democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have
ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of
property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been
violent in their deaths" (Federalist No. 10). |
h**p
发帖数: 42 | 7 Democracy 的形式有幾種，republic 是其中之一。美國是 republic 的形式，但也是
廣義定義下的民主。
民主就是人民自主，它可以是直接，也可以是間接。不論直接間接，都叫做民主。
不知道樓主哪裡地攤文學抄來的。 |
n***y
发帖数: 2730 | 8 知道啥事剽窃吗？就是整段整段的抄人家的又不说出处.
By the way, Daneen G. Peterson本身就是个神经病，没人把他当回事儿。 |
n*****8
发帖数: 19630 | 9 共和党大佬，议会反对党领袖说不支持屁民选出的川普，
民主遮羞布被撕掉了吧。
老将们还嘴硬。
:) |
d*****g
发帖数: 4364 | 10 全国上下意见一致才叫民主？
【在 n*****8 的大作中提到】
: 共和党大佬，议会反对党领袖说不支持屁民选出的川普，
: 民主遮羞布被撕掉了吧。
: 老将们还嘴硬。
: :)
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w*****s
发帖数: 2896 | 11 美国是金钱民主，当权的都是钱堆出来的。有钱就有很大的自由，黑的说成白的，坏的
说成好的，杀人说成精神不正常导致的。
有钱人为了巩固其地位，养了一大批票蛆为选举保驾护航。好多政策的制定就是为了富
人的利益，不惜摧毁中产阶级，根本就是票蛆培养制度。大批的中产，坠入贫困阶级后
，最终成为依靠福利，靠富人的施舍的贫民，本质上，这是对人性的另外一种迫害和摧
残。
美国的共和和民主两党都有问题，其中民主党最为无耻，俗称左逼党或左疯党。为培养
大批的票蛆，不惜置国家安全于不顾，大力引进非法移民和穆斯林；同时在全面掌控学
校系统，把年轻一代，从小洗脑成脑残的LGBT一代。
make america great again 最终将赢得民心，这是美国人民的心愿，也是重回正途的
第一步。 |
k*******g
发帖数: 7321 | 12 Re
【在 w*****s 的大作中提到】
: 美国是金钱民主，当权的都是钱堆出来的。有钱就有很大的自由，黑的说成白的，坏的
: 说成好的，杀人说成精神不正常导致的。
: 有钱人为了巩固其地位，养了一大批票蛆为选举保驾护航。好多政策的制定就是为了富
: 人的利益，不惜摧毁中产阶级，根本就是票蛆培养制度。大批的中产，坠入贫困阶级后
: ，最终成为依靠福利，靠富人的施舍的贫民，本质上，这是对人性的另外一种迫害和摧
: 残。
: 美国的共和和民主两党都有问题，其中民主党最为无耻，俗称左逼党或左疯党。为培养
: 大批的票蛆，不惜置国家安全于不顾，大力引进非法移民和穆斯林；同时在全面掌控学
: 校系统，把年轻一代，从小洗脑成脑残的LGBT一代。
: make america great again 最终将赢得民心，这是美国人民的心愿，也是重回正途的
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b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 13
【在 k*******g 的大作中提到】
: Re
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