"lardsoup" wrote in message
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Neat. Doesn't matter what the constitution says, so long as the of
government "looks" the way YOU want it to. How did you define fascism?

"Ron McKinnon"
It is irrelevant whether the US Constitution explicity 'says democracy'
to
whether in fact it is one.
Constitutional cites snipped
This looks pretty representative-democracy-ish to
me.

It does matter what the Constitution says, as I clearly stated,
and you excised out. You're missing the point, though it
puzzles me how that could be. It hasn't got anything to do
with how *I* might or might not want it to look, and I feel
you're being disingenuous in saying otherwise.

The point to which I have addressed my comments is that
being a democracy and being a republic are not mutually
exclusive. The point, further, is that one pertains to the form
that the government takes, and the other to the way such
government is chosen.

And, finally, regardless that the US Constitution does not
use the word 'democracy', nor state in so many words
that the Union 'is a democracy', in specifying the manner
in which the members of the legislative branch are chosen
-- directly by the people (of the several States) in the case
of the House of Representatives, and indirectly by the
people (by the legislatures of the several States, in fact) for
the Senate (and the Executive branch), it clearly establishes
the Union as democratic.