Hello jsw225,
I concur. The Constitution guarantees us all a Republican form of government. It never mentions the word Democracy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL6HX07un...
It is a form of propaganda.
Respectfully,
O.A.

Because the media is in a great place to control the Mob Rule, they purvey this myth as the intent of the founders.
I'd be astonished if even 25% of Americans knew the difference between a democracy and republic.

While I'm hesitant to take away any state's rights to run their own business, the state's attempts to remove their citizens own rights means that the issue needs to be addressed country wide.

I like tying each individual electoral vote to each individual district.

Democracy is mobocracy, that pretty much fits in with Ben's comments about the two wolves.

how can anyone quote the pledge of allegiance and not understand that we were meant to be a "Republic". To hear someone do so and turn around calling us a democracy! Well do people actually pay attention to their use of words, their thought patterns, beliefs, or teachings to be true or false. To live a lie is to not live at all.

The latest proposal on how to "fix" the electoral college is to have all the electoral votes in a state awarded to the winner of the national popular vote. Needless to say that isn't very well-liked here in Oklahoma, where Obama didn't win one electoral district.

A better fix would be to automatically award the electoral vote to the winner in each district of a state, rather than the current mix of "winner take all" or proportional allocation. That would challenge the Presidential candidates to address a broader variety of the voting public.

He was a smart man.

That also I believe is attributed to Ben Franklin.

It's infuriating that the vast majority of Americans don't even realize we are supposed to be a republic. It seems they honestly believe that mob rules is the best form of government.

I believe that one elder statesman described the new form of government as, "A republic, if you can keep it."

I'll bet that current American history textbooks say nothing about the Founders abhorence of democracy, which they equated with mob rule. America was set up as a republic, not a democracy.