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Kasz216 on 10 October 2011
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Laurel Aitken said:
Kantor said:
sapphi_snake said:
Vertigo-X said:
*facepalms*

Maybe that guy in the end doesn't realize it, but there is a distinct line between a Republic, which is what the US is, and a Democracy.

*facepalm*

You're another one of those people who has no ideea what those two terms mean (and that they're not mutually exclusive, as they refer to different aspects of a state).

A democracy gives full control of the country and its laws and policy to the majority.

A republic guarantees certain fundamental rights regardless of the opinion of the majority.

The USA is a republic.


And what is a democratic republic?

As sapphi_snake said, they aren't mutually exclusive.

A republic with an unneeded prefix.

Well that or a government that holds rigged elections but pretends to be democratic... ala East Germany.

 

Republics protect minorities.  Democracies don't.  In a Democracy if 50.1% of the country wants something... it gets it no matter what.

If this isn't the case.... it's  republic.

There is no inbetween.  It's purely analog.