OT Down the road, kicking stones

[P. J. Alling]

Actually we have a Requirement that each State be at minimum a 
Representative Republic.  In reality all US States today are  
Representative Democracies, (a form of republic to be sure, but then so 
is a Parliamentary Democracy).  In fact if a State decided to change 
it's constitution to that of a Parliamentary Democracy it could.  The 
Federal Government was originally set up as a Federal Republic with each 
State defining how it's people were represented in State and Federal 
elections, with a minimum voting requirement for Federal Offices to be 
the same as the requirement of the most popularly elected body for the 
particular state.  There are now so many federal mandates on voting 
rights that effectively the states have no real control over who votes, 
it's now a Federal mandate.  The only elected official still not 
directly elected is the President.  But then you can't say a Prime 
Minister is directly elected either, except from his own district. 

Adam Maas wrote:
> You have a Republic not a Democracy, we've got a Parliamentary Democracy.
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> -Adam
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> P. J. Alling wrote:
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>> We have democracy, no one ever said we'd always like the results.
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>> William Robb wrote:
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "P. J. Alling" 
>>> Subject: Re: OT Down the road, kicking stones
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>>>> So for the longest time Canada was safe from democracy...
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>>> I'm thinking glass houses and thrown stones Peter.
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>>> William Robb
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