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Old Mon Jun 23, 2008, 12:28pm
SanDiegoSteve SanDiegoSteve is offline
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Originally Posted by canadaump6
Even I know that America is a representative democracy and a republic. Do its people not elect their representatives?
Yes we do, but as has been proven over history, a true democracy leads to anarchy. That is why we use a democratic process, yet do not embrace true democracy. It's a technicality issue, very much splitting hairs, but there truly is a major difference:

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/Am...ts/demrep.html

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion...Democracy.html

http://www.ahherald.com/bishop/020228_democracy.htm

http://www.mcsm.org/truth1.html

If you can read these articles and not find them to be compelling in nature, then you're just not paying attention.
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