[Seminole]

The column does have gun-related content--the set-up just takes a little time.

Making the World Safe for Mob Rule (http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2003/May-04-Sun-2003/opinion/21225710.html)

[redhead]

I hoped if I read far enough there would be the statement that the US is (or was) a constitutional republic, not a democracy. I wasn't disappointed. Too many people now believe that this is a democracy, majority vote is the rule, and the Constitution is a Living Document. I haven't been feeling very optimistic about the future of our country, of late.

[Drjones]

Excellent read.

Thank you for posting that!

[Airwolf]

Try using “constitutional republic” in conversation with 100 people on the street. I’d bet money that 90+% of them will give you the deer-in-the-headlights treatment.

I am convinced that the combination of revisionist history taught as fact and attention spans heading for the sub-millisecond range will doom this Republic to revolution (or worse-the scrapheap).

When I was a teen I bought into that “living document” crap. Hey, I was in High School in the 70’s :D

My dad nearly had a fit when I suggested that. Never really understood why until the last few years. Wish he was still around to say "I told you so" at the fact I was wrong.

I also suggested at that time that democracy and communism would meet in the middle. Guess on that one I was more right than wrong.

I’m 45 and I give it 50/50 that the S will HTF before I shuffle off this mortal coil.

[BenW]

Try using “constitutional republic” in conversation with 100 people on the street. I’d bet money that 90+% of them will give you the deer-in-the-headlights treatment.
What's really sad is that I work in a Federal government office, and 90% of the employees (all of whom took an oath to defend the constitution) will give you that same look. That's what 8 years of Clinton hiring practices will do. :mad:

[Drjones]

That's what 8 years of Clinton hiring practices will do.

What's a "clinton hiring practice"?

See how well female candidates can fit under a desk?

:D :D :D

[mercedesrules]

(Vin S) In a republic with a Constitution and a Bill of Rights like the one America had up through 1912 (or 1932, interpretations vary),
1861-65. :(
(BenW) What's really sad is that I work in a Federal government office,
:D

MR

[BenW]

MR: :p

[Vladimir Berkov]

"The communist slave states of Eastern Europe weren't called `people's democracies' for nothing."

This is not exactly correct. Many communist states in Eastern Europe were called "republics," and I can't think of any which was called a "people's democracy."

For example, you have the DDR (German Democratic Republic), the People's Republic of Bulgaria, etc, etc.

[Dorrin79]

Vladimir -

IIRC, many of them were called "People's Democratic Republic of XXX"

NK, for example, is actually the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"

[Vladimir Berkov]

NK is not in Eastern Europe, nor is it called the "People's Democracy of North Korea."