Quote from: morggin on Today at 06:43:09 AM

If you think America is a democracy, think again. It's not. America is a Constitutional Republic. The people do not directly elect the president and members of the federal government; the representatives of the people in each state elect them. The danger of democracy is the tyranny of the majority which leads to oppression and despotism of the minority groups.

Further...

The majority is trampled upon by the tiny government group.

The majority is only the majority regarding electing government officers. Never do the people of the majority think alike. It's the same for minorities.

The US government was originally never meant to touch the people. The US government was to regulate only the States. However, to be fair, the government was allowed to contract with individual people. This contracting was enlarged and modified by the 13th and 14th Amendments.

The Amendment enlargement and modification made it so that any man/woman had to state their position if they didn't want to be automatically included in the contracting with government. Few people state their position in this regard.

Note that a man or woman is not a 'person' in light of the government, except that he/she has agreed to be. Look up the definitions of 'person' in government paperwork.

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