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Originally Posted by Guest
My questions don't have anything to do with the thread "falling poll numbers". Your question about what the Tea Party stands for is right on point of this thread. I asked several questions that were right on point about the Tea Party affect on the Republican Party, and you didn't answer. I wonder why? Is it that the truth hurts?
That is all you have to know about the Tea Party. The Constitution, that they always tout, states that the majority rules. They are not in the majority, but want to get their way on everything. If they don't get their way, they make it difficult, if not impossible, to get anything done. That is what the Tea Party is. They always want to take their ball, and go home. If we don't get our way, we are going to shut down the government. How many times have they threaten that.?
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"Even though nearly every politician, teacher, journalist and citizen believes that our Founders created a democracy, it is absolutely not true. The Founders knew full well the differences between a Republic and a Democracy. They repeatedly and emphatically said that they had founded a Republic.
Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution "guarantees to every state in this union a Republican form of government".... Conversely, the word Democracy is not mentioned even once in the Constitution. Madison warned us of the dangers of democracies with these words,
"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...",
"We may define a republic to be ... a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans and claim for their government the honorable title of republic." James Madison, Federalist No. 10, (1787)
"A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)"
Republic vs. Democracy
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