In the world there are a variety of types of government. There is the Republican form of government. A Republic is a state in which the rule is conferred by the people to a certain portion of the people, elected by the people to represent them. The country, the United States of America, is a Republic. The sovereignty resides in the presidential, congressional and judicial representatives which they elect to represent them. Then there is Democracy. It is another form of government, which in its purest sense holds that the state should be held in the control of ALL the people. In a pure Democracy every issue would be decided by plebiscite (direct ballot vote). The United States and most other Western nations are called democracies because their representatives are freely elected by the people and many issues are also decided by plebiscite. Not all Republican governments are democratic.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:06:59 +0000