Video: The U. S. is NOT a DEMOCRACY! Great video series explaining why our founders did their best to avoid DEMOCRACY.

But it just doesn't go quite far enough. We are a democracy in our voting system, a Republic first and foremost in our governmental laws and a free trade capitalism in our markets. Or at least we originally were and now all that is messed up. I still don't understand exactly how to verbalize what makes us different from the Republic of China. Maybe they really just are not a Republic at all??? Anyway, our Independent Voters site says we are a republic and that is what our men are fighting for in Iraq. The elitists want us to think we are a democracy. They want us to think that majority rules for some reason, not exactly sure how that all works in their minds. This is confusing. I don't have it anywhere near straight so that I can articulate the differences and compare with the Republic of China.

is to blunt the power of the people, i.e. of the majority. The idea is to set up rule of law, in the form of a Constitution, that is very difficult to change. The fact that people can vote, makes them FEEL like they're affecting things, but in reality, they're not. They're simply electing people. And it's also very difficult for the people who are elected to change the law, i.e. the Constitution. A simple majority of elected officials cannot do it. The system is set up so people and factions, and parties, can battle against each other politically, and not get much done. That's the whole point - to keep government from doing anything except the limited number of things that are authorized in the Constitution. Our Constitutional Republic is not set up perfectly, obviously, since the government has intervened in society and the economy a lot - though less that almost all other countries. So, it hasn't exactly gone according to plan, due to so many officials disregarding the Constitution, but that was the plan -to keep government restrained, as well as keep majorities restrained from affecting what government does, by granting them power to vote for officials but no power besides that. Moreover, the people cannot elect Surpreme Court judges precisely for the purpose of preventing majorities from exercising their will over other individuals and over the law.

We're an ELECTORAL democracy, but not democracy in the sense of majority rule, more formally known as pure democracy or direct democracy.

China does not have a Constitution that protects individual liberty from government. That's the reason why they haven't prospered to the degree the U.S. has, but they're starting to, as a result of loosening some restrictions on economic freedom.

since China has become a much better capitalist that we are...lol.

Never trust Wikipedia.

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Liberty for Dummies

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...

"A constitutional republic is a state where the head of state and other officials are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the government's power over citizens. In a constitutional republic, executive, legislative, and judicial powers are separated into distinct branches and the will of the majority of the population is tempered by protections for individual rights so that no individual or group has absolute power. "

Oh, I see it now, later on in the article. I guess they mean it's an ELECTORAL democracy, which it is. The citizens elect people but they don't make law.

"first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property" -Thomas Jefferson