Can u help me with a history question? ... was early america a democracy or was it a working democracy?

Question

i can't figure it out.... if you don't know the answer.. what does the question mean? thanks

Answer 1

What time period in American History are you dealing with, how old are you and I might be able to answer.

Answer 2

At what point in history are you referring to? What century? What decade ? For beginners however, America never was and never is a democracy. Its a REPUBLIC. There is a huge difference and beyond that the early framers of the Constitution feared a democracy as much as they feared a tyrany.
Some representational government existed during the British occupation however in a very limited form. It was more based on the parlimentary model estalished in England but with a polyglot of high and low Anglican church men, Presbyterians, Scotch Irish, Irish, Scoth, former transported criminals, indentured servants, the Regulators of the Carolinas, the classes of Planters, Piedmont Virginians, Eastern seaboard maritime interests who looked back accross the Atlantic to England, Tories, Ulster Scots who supported or identified with the Tories, and many many more competing interests and
identities, no one identity served to group all early Ameicans into any one catagory. You need to take a closer look at the colonial House of Burgeses in various states, their realtion to royal governors, and the mercantile economy model that Britain
applied to the colonies. There was a lot going on then.

Answer 3

Depends on where and how long ago. By the time of the American revolution , Americans had already been deciding how to run their own local areas for about 200 years, so England putting it's foot down was a shock. Early America also was not an organized item in the 1600's and early 1700's, so it depends on what region you're referring to. Virginia plantations were different than New England but most did have varying degrees of self-rule. The question sounds like a trick question.

Answer 4

working democracy. We have never been a true democracy because of the hastles involved with public conscensus on every issue. We vote in representatives as our form of Democracy. (my opinion, not fact)