If America is a Republic, then so is Canada really; but then, so is most of the democratic world. I actually remember learning about the Canadian system in social studies, grade 9, and asked my teacher "so wait, aren't we a republic then?". All he could answer was "No we're not! We're a democracy!" but couldn't explain why I was wrong.



Anyway, a Republic quite simply is a form of democracy. The only difference is that what people here are referring to as "Pure Democracy", is actually called Direct Democracy. A Republic is what most of us use today, which is called a Representative Democracy.


We made the change from Direct Democracy to Representative Democracy because of a booming population that couldn't allow public deliberation on every issue; just too many people to gather on too many issues.
Democracy does not necessarily mandate mob rule though (it does, currently, but it doesn't have to). In the most simple and oft-used first-past-the-post system, 50%+1 gives candidates victory and likewise, 51% of the public can oppress 49% of the population. This is the main problem with classical liberal democracy, it does not ensure the rights of minorities.
Anywho, this can easily be remedied by jumping over to a system of proportional representation, as I described in my post above.


Cheers.:joint1: :S5:
Gandalf_The_Grey Reviewed by Gandalf_The_Grey on . america was founded a free republic not democracy i want everyones take on why we should be a democracy when we were a FREE REPUBLIC and our forefathers foretold how bad democracy is. and another thing thats bad about it is mob rules(51% rules 49% of the people). that is not how america was founded. from what i have seen democracy are just as bad as socialist communist. it was stalin that said democracys are a perfect merge between corparate interest and the state. and if you think we were founded a democracy prove it and post your findings Rating: 5