No it still functions like a mini republic. The counties are in charge of themselves. They fund the schools, roads and other "state" (in texases its county based) services.
Something about our judge's have more power, and the law is a bit different. I dont completely understand it but I love it. Everything county funded is so manageable.
Yeah, I don't think that's what is meant by a republic. The electoral collage is yet a separate piece to our presidential election. By being a republic we elect representatives which vote on legislation on our behalf as opposed to all laws going to the public for a vote. Having the public vote on all laws and having the majority decide would be a democracy.
You can check out federalist paper 10 which gives some insight into why the founders wanted a republic instead of a democracy.
Both the state and federal legislatures are republican forms of government. From article 4 of the US constitution:
...The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,...
The electoral college is just a mechanism so that a couple/few populous states don't control the executive branch. Nothing to do with us being a republic or not.
Can we please stop calling the Republic a Democracy while we're at it?
States have democracy, the country is a republic.
Yup. Also, a republic is a form of democracy, it is just not a strict democracy, which doesn't work when uniting an (almost) entire continent
I thought Texas was a mini republic?
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No it still functions like a mini republic. The counties are in charge of themselves. They fund the schools, roads and other "state" (in texases its county based) services.
Something about our judge's have more power, and the law is a bit different. I dont completely understand it but I love it. Everything county funded is so manageable.
How are states a democracy?
State voting is straight up majority rule, unlike the country which has the representative voting via the electoral college
Yeah, I don't think that's what is meant by a republic. The electoral collage is yet a separate piece to our presidential election. By being a republic we elect representatives which vote on legislation on our behalf as opposed to all laws going to the public for a vote. Having the public vote on all laws and having the majority decide would be a democracy.
You can check out federalist paper 10 which gives some insight into why the founders wanted a republic instead of a democracy.
https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-1-10#s-lg-box-wrapper-25493273
Both the state and federal legislatures are republican forms of government. From article 4 of the US constitution:
The electoral college is just a mechanism so that a couple/few populous states don't control the executive branch. Nothing to do with us being a republic or not.