How is a Republic that is not a Democracy, not dictatorial in nature?

[Kasz216]

Mr Khan said:

Kasz216 said:
Though generally when people talk about the USA as a republic, they talk about essential "natural" rights that the government protects that mob rule can not overturn.

Such as free speech. Which as far as i can tell is one of the things OWS wants to overturn... since to stop corporate personhood in campaign finance you would need to essentially revoke the first ammendment.

How, precisely? Unless it would mess with the clause regarding freedom of assembly, but i always envisioned that as a rather narrow thing.

Or we can just redefine the legal basis of the corporation so that it retains the necessary advantages of forming a corporation without gaining certain legal loopholes

Corporations are nothing but people working together.

As the court put it in their ruling.

"If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."

You can't ban free speech soley because it's free speech from an assosiation of citizens because an assosiation of citizens is just that.  Citizens.

It would be like argueing that people have a right to be protected against unfair search and seizure, but only if they live alone.

 

Or in addition as it was put in the concurrence.

"the First Amendment was written in "terms of speech, not speakers" and that "Its text offers no foothold for excluding any category of speaker.""