Actually we have a Requirement that each State be at minimum a Representative Republic. In reality all US States today are Representative Democracies, (a form of republic to be sure, but then so is a Parliamentary Democracy). In fact if a State decided to change it's constitution to that of a Parliamentary Democracy it could. The Federal Government was originally set up as a Federal Republic with each State defining how it's people were represented in State and Federal elections, with a minimum voting requirement for Federal Offices to be the same as the requirement of the most popularly elected body for the particular state. There are now so many federal mandates on voting rights that effectively the states have no real control over who votes, it's now a Federal mandate. The only elected official still not directly elected is the President. But then you can't say a Prime Minister is directly elected either, except from his own district.
Adam Maas wrote: > You have a Republic not a Democracy, we've got a Parliamentary Democracy. > > -Adam > > P. J. Alling wrote: > >> We have democracy, no one ever said we'd always like the results. >> >> William Robb wrote: >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "P. J. Alling" >>> Subject: Re: OT Down the road, kicking stones >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> So for the longest time Canada was safe from democracy... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I'm thinking glass houses and thrown stones Peter. >>> >>> William Robb >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
