I would like to know this because I am totatly serious about this. Please if we do change to a Republic. We will not be BRAIN-DEAD-MORONS!!!!
2007-01-05 13:21:14 · 15 answers · asked by Joe-Mama 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Sweetie, we ARE a republic. We've just gotten so far away from how the country is supposed to be ran over the past few decades that sometimes people forget. We just need to get someone in there that is actually going to use the constitutional republic that we have set up.
2007-01-05 13:24:42 · answer #1 · answered by Tiffany 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
The United States is a democratic republic which means that each person has a right to vote. However, we are not a direct democracy because in a direct democracy the people's votes actually are counted and decide the issues. In a indirect democracy, the people vote in representatives to represent their views in Congress and Government. The US is a republic which means we use representational systems. In places that are not republics, they have totalitarian or monarchies. The US is a republic in every way shape and form.
Hope this helps!
2007-01-05 21:50:55 · answer #2 · answered by AnswersGuru 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the brain dead one is you. We are a republic. (One nation under God... the republic for which it stands) A constitutional republic. We are not a true democracy. England and parlimentary countries are. As far as being run by brain dead morons, more than half voted for everyone in office and who is brain dead or not is a matter of opinion. And like asshole.....
2007-01-05 21:25:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
We are a Republic. Maybe not the form you wish? Sadly it seems true that people get the government they deserve. Personally, I think it's because the dumber folks tend to have more kids, who then vote just like their easily brainwashed parents. No one actually thinks things through - they just toe the line. The saddest thing is that they vote against their own best interests most of the time. Most Americans are so busy working several jobs for low pay that they seem to not get the fact that the majority of the tax breaks go to the multimillionaires.
2007-01-05 21:28:31 · answer #4 · answered by slipstreamer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Umm, hate to break it to you, but the United States is a Democratic Republic. In a true democracy, anyone can vote. In our country not everyone can vote. Children, felons, immigrants. See? So we are not technically a democracy. We are a Democratic Republic. Hope this helps.
2007-01-05 21:24:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
The United States is a Republic. In fact, it is a Democratic Republic. The definition of a Republic is simply: "A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them."
That's us. What question were you trying to ask?
2007-01-05 21:24:24 · answer #6 · answered by Mike B 2 · 7⤊ 0⤋
The United States is not a democracy. It is a representative republic.
2007-01-05 21:23:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
As others have said, this is already a Republic. In fact, the founding fathers were totally AGAINST democracy. John Adams said that, "There us no more unstable system in the world than democracy...", and that it, "Soon wastes, exhausts, burns itself out."
2007-01-05 23:51:37 · answer #8 · answered by Firestorm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought we were still a Republic.
2007-01-05 21:23:10 · answer #9 · answered by Noodles 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the US is a republic.
2007-01-05 21:24:07 · answer #10 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋