American Democracy

[Dis]

Originally posted by Kidicious
Diss,

There is more to it than they just commit more crimes. They are given the death penalty more often, because they are black. They are also convicted more often although innocent.

this may be true in other states, but it doesn't seem true in my state.

[Harry Tuttle]

Well this thread has gone south.

[Spiffor]

To say that I expected the threadjack to be about gay marriage


(Don't blame me, someone would have mentioned them if I hadn't written the disclaimer anyway )

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Dissident


this may be true in other states, but it doesn't seem true in my state.

Didn't know you had black people in Nevada.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Geronimo
Naw. Otherwise I could have a government where only members of a particular religion that constitutes 3% of the population can vote and claim that it is a 'democracy'.

Yes, so?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Wycoff
To me, that's necessary to call a Liberal government a representative Democracy. Any Liberal government without universal suffrage cannot be considered a "Democracy"

Most of what MOST people call, and called, democracies did not have universal suffrage. The word democracy was invented by the Greeks, not us, to describe some of their governments, none of which had universal suffrage. You can't just say that they were misusing the term!

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Yes, so?

Accepting such definitions would make promoting 'democracy' a worthless cause. That would be a genuine shame.

[Sikander]

We're a democratic republic, not a democracy.