Robert_de_Sable Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 Oh and there's the fact that India is a democracy... which (the US aside) is a system of government that doesn't start wars of aggression. that was a called for and inventive way to attack the US for no reason. Lol, i don't mean to side track the topic by bringing this up, but dude I wasn't attacking the US, I live in Wisconsin. I was just referring to the point that no democracy has every declared war on another democracy, ever. This international rule of thumb line kinda got blurred when the US attacked Iraq while Iraq claimed to be a democracy. Hence, to sidestep getting in this very argument #-o I put a "lets ignore the US for sake of argument" into my post since I was trying to stay focused on India. It wasn't a slight to the US. Anyway... Lol wut The US isn't a democracy anyway; it's a constitutional republic. A democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system [Source] Your wikipedia knowledge is wrong. [hide=]A constitutional republic is a state where the head of state and other officials are elected as representatives of the people, and must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the government's power over citizens. In a constitutional republic, executive, legislative, and judicial powers are separated into distinct branches and the will of the majority of the population is tempered by protections for individual rights so that no individual or group has absolute power. The fact that a constitution exists that limits the government's power makes the state constitutional. That the head(s) of state and other officials are chosen by election, rather than inheriting their positions, and that their decisions are subject to judicial review makes a state republican; should the judicial review be maximized.[/hide] :roll: I can't be bothered to justify myself to the likes of you, so I took the Wikipedia quote. America is clearly a constitutional republic. I'm so bored by your so-called "argument" that I'm surprised I can even fini [English translation needed] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deiophobus Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I was just arguing against you saying the US is not a democracy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert_de_Sable Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 And I was arguing that the United States of America is not a Democracy; which it is NOT. [English translation needed] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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