What form of democracy is the United States?
direct
indirect
representative
popular
2006-12-12 10:54:13 · 16 answers · asked by I WORK ALONE 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
It is a republic, therefore, representative.
2006-12-12 10:56:32 · answer #1 · answered by Finnegan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The United States is a Representative Democracy.
2006-12-12 10:56:28 · answer #2 · answered by jungle867 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of the above.
The United States of America is not, and was never intended to be a democracy. It is a Republic, as per Article 4 section 4 of the United States Constitution: "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a Republican form of government..."
Our particular form of government, as crafted by the founders, had never before existed in history because they took all of the best elements from the past and applied them to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
Democracy is not a form of government at all; it is actually a means by which tyrants take power, since democracy is based on majority rule, allowing demagogues to form and guide the will of the majority.
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths..."
Our Founding Fathers condemned democracy...
Karl Marx endorsed it in his Communist Manifesto.
2006-12-12 11:21:40 · answer #3 · answered by beeker8o0 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Representative.
2006-12-12 10:57:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a Democracy, it's a Republic
2006-12-12 10:56:07 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The USA is a representative democratic republic but that's changing daily.
2006-12-12 10:56:53 · answer #6 · answered by dasuberding 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I pledge of alligance,
to the flag,and to the "Republic" for which it stands,
One nation,under God,indivisible,for truth and justice for all.
at least thats how i remember it but its been 25 years or more since I said it,see the word REPUBLIC?????..representative
2006-12-12 14:21:20 · answer #7 · answered by stygianwolfe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It turned into a Corporatocracy about 50 years ago.
2006-12-12 11:36:57 · answer #8 · answered by Jared H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your living it!
I believe it is direct because of the November elections.
2006-12-12 10:59:39 · answer #9 · answered by docie555@yahoo.com 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a democratic republic because everybody gets to vote, but they vote for people to represent them
2006-12-12 13:00:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋