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Revision as of 02:45, November 12, 2007
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:Our form of democracy is not [[majority rule]] like a New Hampshire town meeting, because it has federal and state components (each states have local components!). --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 11 November 2007 (EST)
:Our form of democracy is not [[majority rule]] like a New Hampshire town meeting, because it has federal and state components (each states have local components!). --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 21:38, 11 November 2007 (EST)
Okay, I get it now: I did some googling and found out that "not a democracy" is a slogan meant to emphasize the "[[republic]]an" nature of American democracy;
:Modern American democracy is in the form of a [[democratic republic]] or a [[representative democracy]]. [http://library.thinkquest.org/26466/history_of_democracy.html]
So, translated into plain English the slogan means that America's form of government is a representative democracy rather than a direct democracy - which everyone here knew all along. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 21:45, 11 November 2007 (EST)
--[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 21:45, 11 November 2007 (EST)