From: "Steven P. McNicoll"
Date: 7/15/2004 12:23 PM Central Daylight Time
Message-id: et


"ian maclure" wrote in message
news

Are you saying that the US isn't a democracy?


Its a Republic.


It's a republic on paper, a democracy in fact.

Democracy means essentially majority wins. This means 50% of the votes plus 1
is all that is required to pass a bill or elect a president. If that is the
case not one person won the 2000 election since no one got 50% plus 1 or
better.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired