XPost: alt.society.liberalism, alt.atheism, talk.politics.guns   
   From: lunch@nofreelunch.us   
      
   On Sat, 18 May 2013 09:19:31 -0700, Klaus Schadenfreude   
    wrote in alt.atheism:   
      
   >On Sat, 18 May 2013 10:56:54 -0500, RD Sandman   
   > wrote:   
      
   ...   
      
   >>It is referred to as a Constitutional Republic but take all the screens   
   >>you need to show the difference between that and a representative   
   >>democracy.   
   >   
   >One screen should do it.   
      
   That could be called "one screed".   
      
   >An Important Distinction: Democracy versus Republic   
      
   [often misleading claims read and deleted. I am not persuaded that   
   Hamilton Abert Long has done anything but set up two definitions that   
   happen to fit his prejudices offering more heat than light on the   
   subject]   
      
   The only place the US Constitution talks about a republic is in Article   
   IV Section 4, which says that the Federal government will guarantee that   
   each of the states will have a Republican form of government. The sense   
   that Long uses does not seem to apply.   
      
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