dsister44 said:
well, its basically the same, but like i said in a democracy you vote directly for the president, and you vote actually goes torward it. but in a republic the electoral college looks at your vote then decides to vote depending what they thought of those votes. like how in 2004 bush lost the votes,but got more electoral votes therefore he won. |
Your referring to a different type of electoral system, the United States is still a democracy, no matter which electoral system it uses. You seem to be somewhat confused, because any country, Kingdom or Republic, can be democratic, and any country, Kingdom or Republic, can also not be democratic. A Kingdom essentially means that the head of State is unelected (like the UK and the Queen), a Republic means that the head of State is elected (like the US and the President).
| akuma587 said: A true democracy is completely different. In a true democracy, you vote on every bill that is proposed by your state and the federal legislature. |
That's not a true democracy, that's referred to as direct democracy. There are very few examples of direct democracies, the only ones I can think of is ancient Athens (the US being the first democracy is a common misconception), where any citizen can go into Parliament and state their views/cast their votes on matters; and a modern day example would be Switzerland, they're not 100% direct, but they deal with the majority of their matters through referenda.
Direct democracies are simply impratical because countries are too large and populations are too great to allow for that many people to come in and vote on particular issues. The system that most countries opt for is "indirect", or "representative" democracy, where the electorate elect people to act as their representatives.
