Is the US a true democracy?

Question

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Answer 1

Actually I believe it is a Constitutional Republic. The Constitution is the highest law in the land, and our laws can't violate it, and we can't vote in amendments that violate it...

We should really know this guys.

Answer 2

A true Democracy is 5 wolves and 3 sheep voting on whats for dinner. Be thankful you don't live in a "true democracy".

Answer 3

Why would we want to be anything but a Republic?

Answer 4

no its a republic  a representative democracy not a true democracy far too many brain dead people to make it a democracy we would be broke and at war every time somone said something bad against us oh and we would prolly still have a family unit cuz women wouldnt ever vote

Answer 5

No, it's an oligarchy.

a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes

Answer 6

No such thing.

Answer 7

being a constitutional republic, at inception as spelled out in the articles of confederation, used to form a constitution, I'd say no, the last two hundred years under that system shows that it works

Answer 8

No, it is a representational democracy.  Known as a republic.

Answer 9

The US is not a democracy.  Originally, the US was a confederation of 13 free and independent nations (the actual word was "states," but it meant "nations" in today's American English).  This was perfectly fine, but Alexander Hamilton and other nationalists wanted all 13 nations to be merged into one supernation and so he engineered the Coup of 1787 (known to history as the Constitutional Convention) and although he desired to establish a monarchy, he established a constitutional republic because it was much easier to sell than a monarchy (and he still only narrowly succeeded even after a propaganda campaign and implementing a Bill of Rights with no real safeguards to protect those rights).

Even after this, most Americans still thought of themselves as citizens of their home state, not citizens of the government in DC (much as citizens of the EU still think of themselves as Frenchmen, Germans, Spaniards, Italians, Brits etc.).  Abe Lincoln changed all of this after 11 of the states (including Virginia, which had specifically reserved the right to secede) decided to secede when he killed hundreds of thousands of people (most of them enslaved into his army through "the draft" or enslaved into the armies of the federal government at Richmond) to keep the US unified so that his friends in the manufacturing interests of the north could collect their tariffs at the expense of the southerners (the whole "ending slavery" thing was a false pretext especially since the idea of using an army of slaves to free slaves is an absurdity and since the government has never failed to violate the 13th Amendment by enslaving people into the military, denying all members of the military, even those who joined voluntarily, the right to quit and forcing children to attend school against their will, among other violations).

The founders were clearly against the concept of "democracy" which is basically rule by the whims of the mob (the basic idea of democracy is that something is right if 51% of the people who feel like voting support it) and were in favor of a "republic" which is rule by laws (and as history as proven, an impossibility).

For the last century or so (since the fall of the Democratic Party in 1896), this country has been ruled by 2 competing sets of special interests that basically agree on everything except for which one is to get the loot.  These special interests feign differences in order to convince the voters that they are actually doing something meaningful when they vote, but once in power they often pass things that are supposedly part of the other party's agenda (such as how Bill Clinton passed welfare "reform" and how Richard Nixon dumped the Gold Standard and implemented price and wage controls, causing the last depression prior to the current one; for more recent examples, George Bush's No Child Left Behind and Medicare expansion as well as the Democratic Congress's passage of war funding bills and warrantless wiretapping authorization "laws").

If Americans desire to restore freedom, they must recognize that the Democrats and Republicans are the wrong parties to be joining.  However, all 3 of the biggest 3rd parties are generally good on civil liberties issues (including the foreign policy issues where the only politically correct position is to be in favor of mass murder of foreigners somewhere and of US interference in other nations internal affairs).  The Green Party, Libertarian Party, and Constitution Party obviously have sharp disagreements about what kind of country America should be, but all of them are far better than the Republicrat Party (at least from the perspective of those who don't want the special interests to continue their Global War on Freedom).

Answer 10

No, it's a democratic republic.

Answer 11

No it is a represenative republic.