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RE: I was going to write my thoughts on the Presidential Candidates then I thought ; what would be the use of that . . .
But we live in a federal republic, very different from a democracy and not voting is a viable way of saying stuff it. Think local, act local.
There is no fundamental difference between a Federal Republic and Democracy. By this I mean everything is a human expression of the interpretation of what something reads as or something someone says.
People can say its a Republic because it follows a slightly different set of rules than mob rule like pure democracy but in reality every system of government is slightly different than its neighbor because of the individual personalities who vote to create it.
This is why a local State lower court MUST abide by that State's higher Courts ruling , but one State is NOT required to follow any other States legal laws of precedent. Of course every State must follow the US Supreme Court simply so that uniformity instills confidence in people : )
LOL , or at least it USED to ; )
No there is a huge difference between a federal republic and a democracy in my opinion. In the original design most of the power of government was concentrated in the states. That allowed the people in those individual states ready access to their government. The states gave up very few powers to the national government, in fact Art. 1 Section 8 of the Constitution of the USA outlines them specifically. All other powers were reserved to the states themselves. Since the states created the national government and reserved all other powers to themselves they were originally designed to be the more powerful entity.
What has happened, particularly since the beginning of the 20th century is that the central authority has seized more and more power leading to the imbalance we now see. Additionally, the balance of power has shifted from the legislative branch to the executive. Further, the representation to person ratio has gone from 1:20,000 at the time of ratification to 1:750,000. That means that we are no longer a representative republic, a democracy, nor do we have any semblance of even democracy. We are an oligarchy at best and a tyranny at worst.
I should add in the original design it was understood that the check on the SCOTUS was nullification by the individual states. It was used pretty regularly until after the "Civil" War.
I truly would like to read more of what u r suggesting, plz suggest quality places for me to investigate further ; thank you !!!
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Tom Woods' book Nullification is the best place to start.