Constitutional Republic Vs. Representative Democracy
I know the whole distinction between Republic vs. Democracy and what we are etc, but when we elect a representative by popular vote, isn't it democracy at play? For example, a Senate/House Rep. election. So is it correct to say that this is a Constitutional Republic which functions as a Representative Democracy?
The United States was founded as a Constitutional Republic.
Years of corruption later:
Now the system is called "Constitutional Republic," looks like a "Representative Democracy," but behind the scenes it operates like a Oligarchy.
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In a "Constitutional Republic", how are the members of the Congress, Senators & the President elected? How is it different from the current "Representative Democracy"?
The country was technically a Constitutional Republic, but in reality it was a Representative Constitutional Republic.
"For if you [the rulers] suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves [and outlaws] and then punish them."
-Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), Utopia, Book 1
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"Representative" is implied by being a Constitutional Republic.Originally Posted by Philosophy_of_Politics
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The difference between republican and democratic forms of government is that the former respects inalienable rights while the latter knows no such boundaries to its exercise of power.
“If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
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What is the difference between a "Representative Constitutional Republic" and a "Representative Democracy"? That is the part I am not clear on. If we are not a "Representative Democracy", how does a "Representative Democracy" work?
We didn't start out as a representative democracy in principle but have certainly moved in that direction, the biggest structural change being the surrendering of statehouse control over the US Senate. The US House was to be the body where representative democracy ruled directly; not the Senate and not the Presidency.
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