Democratic Reforms Held Hostage To Absurd Amendment Process

[eniwetok]

63. Show me where a "republic" MUST be antidemocratic...

It's rather amazing how many... left and right, resort to the old "we're not a democracy, we're a republic"... as if being a "republic" means we MUST have an antidemocratic system. In the generic sense at the time a republic was a system that banned royalty, had a written constitution and representative government. As the Declaration of Independence says...

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.


So democratic principles are also inherent in a republic. And our system does have majority and supermajority rules all through out. The problem is that when states have suffrage, the system becomes antidemocratic in how PEOPLE are represented. And whenever there are vote weighting/dilution schemes as we have... then there can be a tyranny of the minority as the Bush and Trump Junta's prove.

Our system violates the very standard for morally legitimate government based on the consent of the governed. One MIGHT think that of anyone in the nation, liberal Dems would understand this... especially since these vote weighting/dilutions schemes were made ILLEGAL at the state and municiple level.