b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: beijingren (to thine own self be true), 信区: Military
标 题: 每次叔听老将说美国是民主国家，叔就想笑
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat May 7 02:01:03 2016, 美东)
How often have you heard people refer to America as a Democracy? When was
the last time that you heard America referred to as a Republic? There is a
very good reason that our Pledge of Allegiance refers to our country as a
Republic and there is a very good reason that our Declaration of
Independence and our constitution do not even mentioned the word "democracy"
.
Many people are under the false impression our form of government is a
democracy, or representative democracy. This is of course completely untrue.
The Founders were extremely knowledgeable about the issue of democracy and
feared a democracy as much as a monarchy. They understood that the only
entity that can take away the people's freedom is their own government,
either by being too weak to protect them from external threats or by
becoming too powerful and taking over every aspect of life.
They knew very well the meaning of the word "democracy", and the history of
democracies; and they were deliberately doing everything in their power to
prevent having a democracy.
In a Republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves. In a
Republic, one may act on his own or through his representatives when he
chooses to solve a problem. The people have no obligation to the government;
instead, the government is a servant of the people, and obliged to its
owner, We the People. Many politicians have lost sight of that fact.
A Constitutional Republic has some similarities to democracy in that it uses
democratic processes to elect representatives and pass new laws, etc. The
critical difference lies in the fact that a Constitutional Republic has a
Constitution that limits the powers of the government. It also spells out
how the government is structured, creating checks on its power and balancing
power between the different branches.
The goal of a Constitutional Republic was to avoid the dangerous extreme of
either tyranny or mobocracy but what exists in America today is a far cry
from the Constitutional Republic our forefathers brought forth. | B*Q
发帖数: 25729 | | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 3 Is the United States a democracy?
http://www.thisnation.com/question/011.html
The Pledge of Allegiance includes the phrase: "and to the republic for which
it stands." Is the United States of America a republic? I always thought it
was a democracy? What's the difference between the two?
The United States is, indeed, a republic, not a democracy. Accurately
defined, a democracy is a form of government in which the people decide
policy matters directly--through town hall meetings or by voting on ballot
initiatives and referendums. A republic, on the other hand, is a system in
which the people choose representatives who, in turn, make policy decisions
on their behalf. The Framers of the Constitution were altogether fearful of
pure democracy. Everything they read and studied taught them that pure
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" (Federalist No. 10). | T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 4 所以民主和共和的死结都是人民的素质和价值观。
共和制以及美国的宪法，这么一个再好不过的外星高科技的设计，都能给整成今天民主
党左逼欺压纳税人，献逼犯罪的状况。
真的是成也人民，败也人民？ | t**********3
发帖数: 12623 | 5 左逼搞成民粹主义社会，一切问题政治化，凡事讲政治，就是土鳖党国这一套，但是土
鳖党国搞经济，左逼民主党只搞社会主义政治建设不搞经济建设。
【在 T*********I 的大作中提到】
: 所以民主和共和的死结都是人民的素质和价值观。
: 共和制以及美国的宪法，这么一个再好不过的外星高科技的设计，都能给整成今天民主
: 党左逼欺压纳税人，献逼犯罪的状况。
: 真的是成也人民，败也人民？
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 6 Democracy is evil.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what is for dinner
【在 t**********3 的大作中提到】
: 左逼搞成民粹主义社会，一切问题政治化，凡事讲政治，就是土鳖党国这一套，但是土
: 鳖党国搞经济，左逼民主党只搞社会主义政治建设不搞经济建设。
| t*******d
发帖数: 12895 | | d*****t
发帖数: 7903 | | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 9
【在 B*Q 的大作中提到】
: 咋没图？
| b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 10 共和制
【在 d*****t 的大作中提到】
: 共和这两个字是什么意思？是代议制的意思吗？
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