Magatsu made a error in his post.
Magatsu said:
..... our dying Democracy....
*****America is NOT a Democracy! *****
Pledge of Allegiance:
"...and to the Republic for which it stands..."
United States Constitution, Article IV, Section 4:
"...shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government..."
The Federalist #10, James Madison:
"...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. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions..."
U.S. War Department Training Manual No. 2000-25; November 30, 1928:
DEMOCRACY: "A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of 'direct' expression. Results of mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy."
REPUBLIC: "Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment and progress. Is the 'standard form' of government throughout the world. A Republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of (1) an executive and (2) a legislative body who, working together in representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures and are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent unalienable rights. Take away any one of those four elements and you are drifting into democracy."
Lord Alexander Tytler on the fall of the Athenian republic:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
We are a constitutional representative republic! I know that today's educational system ramrodded by the NEA wants you to believe we are a democracy, and they teach our children that we are. But it is a lie!
One would think a person so astute of our government as to be elected President of these United States would get it right! Sigh....perhaps George Orwell's newspeak is here.
