Lawfag here. I'm sick of americans keep saying "we're a republic, not a democracy"
Those are two entirely different things.
Republic means the head of state isn't a monarch. That's all. It could be a dictator or a democratically elected president it doesn't matter if you don't have a king or a queen your country is a republic.
Democracy on the other hand means rule of the people. It means the goverment takes its legitimacy from people's will. A republic or a monarchy can be democratic or undemoratic. For example United Kingdom is a kingdom yet it is totally democratic while Soviet Union was a republic yet it wasn't democratic at all.
Stop mixing two different concepts, hillary winning popular vote and Trump winningg electoral vote is about neither of them. It is just about electoral method. Simple as that. Countries have different election methods in their constitutions/codes and follow them. USA is a democratic republic. Its electoral system is a bit outdated and unfair but that doesn't stop it being democratic.
Gabriel Nelson
Here is the definition and etymology from the Oxfords Dictionary 4u
Easton Roberts
>Its electoral system is a bit outdated and unfair
Kevin Thompson
>roach trying to tell me how my country works
Hahahahahahahaha, fuck off
Levi Bailey
It is outdated desu
Dylan Price
The united states is a corporate oligarchy disguised as a psephocracy.
Aiden Moore
I'm a lawyer and i know legal systems far better than you kiddo.
Tyler Diaz
Neither of the definitions are mutually exclusive, you retard.
Chase Cooper
>roach lawyer
Hahaha, jesus christ this is funny. Do insects even have laws?
Eli Lopez
Immanuel Kant distinguishes republic and democracy in "perpetual peace".
I'm sure you learned a lot from defending pedophiles in court
Josiah Harris
You could twinkle it a bit desu Winner takes all is completely stupid since there is the population too in the equation and not only the state fixed votes Maybe have something like >winner takes 20% of the total electors >rest is split accordingly to the result
>the etymology is outdated
Ryan Rogers
>Papadopoulo
Disregarded. Give me someone who studies actual countries and then we'll talk.
Jack Torres
Or even better winner takes state base value (3 votes) and the rest are split
Daniel Hughes
I meant the greek guy retard.
Etymology isn't outdated but its technical usage in modern constitutional theory is the one i posted bro.
Gavin James
>Greek education on voting
No. Electoral voting is the most fair considering that a majority of the country lives in something like ~100 square miles total.
Bentley Young
No it's not, retard.
Parker Walker
The way the US is structured is one of decentralizing power to the local level.
There's nothing in the constitution about the people electing a president. The people of a state elect their representatives, and the representatives elect their representative(President).
To say our system is outdated makes no goddamn sense. The change people propose doesn't make the system "fair," it simply serves to centralize power on the federal level.
Nicholas Ortiz
Then worry about why your dogshit country is slowly eroding in to a typical autocratic middle eastern shithole.
Jacob Ortiz
Nice ad hominem. I just wanted to be informative.
Carson Reyes
I guess its the good ol' question weather the president of the Union should represent more the States or the general population
I am guessing you mean a dictatorship where there are some sort of elections between high party members, which is basically an oligarchy Because I cannot see how a dictatorship where inheritance line is followed can be a "republic"