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NewHere112233

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7. Sorry

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Wed Jan 16, 2013, 12:56 PM

Jan 2013

Our country was founded as a Constitutional Republic, the Representative Democracy part is only as of the last 100 years in our country. (As of 1913 because that was the first senate entirely voted in by voters, rather then the state legislators.) You are right, Im sorry, it is now both.

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I'd say you're calling it about right. Jackpine Radical Jan 2013 #1

Constitutional Republic... NewHere112233 Jan 2013 #2

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Sorry NewHere112233 Jan 2013 #7

2 and 1/2 months after a major disaster is not the time to shave "Pork" from disaster response funds Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #6

2 1/2 Months NewHere112233 Jan 2013 #8

Maybe this... cyberswede Jan 2013 #9

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So what happens when Wall Street shifts its money Niagara onto the Democrats full force? Fumesucker Jan 2013 #4

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P.S. The problem may be it's too late Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #11

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