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OK, fair point. I come from a time when civics was taught in highschool.
I apologize for being a little aggressive, there's some here who do absolutely nothing but argue and complain about small things. The challenge fit the M.O., so I thought you were another one of them. Mea Culpa.
So, what you found was a revisionists attempt to dilute two very distinct and separate things. You can always see this when they use doublespeak to blow off the importance of the subject in question.
A Constitutional Republic and a Democracy, are two different things. Whereas a Comstitutional Republic is governed by a written Constitutional Law, A Democracy is naught but an ideological guideline that can be swayed whichever way the wind blows. Coincidentally, this is exactly what's been going on with our government:instead of legislating according to the Constitution, they've been legislating by Democracy (mob rule) only, and ignoring the Constitution wholesale.
One is very dissimilar from the other, BUT can be done hand in hand if done with the Constitution as the bar to not cross.
Thank you! I appreciate the information. I'm just trying to learn.
I understand we don't live in a democracy, but I'm still fuzzy on why calling a republic that follows democratic principles a democratic republic is wrong.
To me that sounds like a perfect description of what we are. Is the point of contention that it's what we ARE but not what we're supposed to be?
I'll give you one example to chew on: The Democratic Peoples Republic of North Korea.
If that doesn't make things click, I'm not sure how else to get the point across.
"Democracy" isn't a standard on which our laws are (supposed to be) based, the constitution is. Hence "constitutional republic".
We use the Democratic principle of voting to choose representatives who in turn vote to enact legislation, but that legislation is (supposed to be) guided and limited by the constitution, we and our elected leaders can't arbitrarily decide laws based simply on voting for it democratically.
For instance, legally, even a supermajority in Congress and the Senate can't make a law that robs a person of life, liberty, or property (the accumulated result of living your life freely) because, even if it's voted in favor of, we are a constitutional republic, not a democratic one. The constitution can't be voted against except in some extreme case where almost all of the states get together and say "alright, this isn't working, we need to overhaul something."
Awesome! Why this was so hard for people to spit out, I dunno. But I like this answer, thank you.