Democracy v. Constitutional Republic – 2GreenEnergy.com

I want I had $100 for each time I heard some uneducated Trump supporter inform me this.

A democracy is a system the place governmental energy is derived straight from the desire of the bulk. A constitutional republic is a particular kind of consultant democracy the place the individuals elect officers to manipulate, however these officers are strictly restricted by a supreme, written structure designed to guard minority rights from majority rule.

I bear in mind a conservative buddy who lived in Hawaii who complained that the native individuals objected to a mission directed from Washington to construct one thing on the prime of one among their volcanoes, on the idea that this was their holy land.  My buddy requested, “Doesn’t the bulk rule?”

“Not essentially.” Making an attempt to make my level within the easiest way potential, I defined, “Folks have rights. My neighbors like me, however think about that they didn’t, and 20 of them, a 20:1 majority, needed to come back in right here and beat me to demise. I’ve a proper to not be murdered. When you concentrate on it, we’re fortunate to not stay in a rustic the place ‘the bulk guidelines.’”

“Oh. I assume you’re proper,” my buddy mentioned.