From Morris' perspective, this is because Americans have demanded something closer to pure democracy. In many cases they've been successful, which means that the mass population has been entrusted ...

“What’s funny about Santorum’s comments about abortion and weed being sexy for young people in a pure democracy is that the median voter age in Ohio is 51,” Biden DNC delegate and former ...

But while progressives repeatedly tout the virtues of “democracy” — apparently unaware that the nation was founded as a democratic republic, not a pure democracy — they also fight persistently to ...

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In a pure democracy, 51% of voters could take away your right to read this article, and my right to write it. In our republic, that right and the others are enshrined in the Bill of Rights, ...

Many public debates about democracy-versus-republic, according to Heersink, are thinly masked attempts to alter or preserve a status quo that benefits a party or candidate for at least the short-term.

Election denialism has become not only a thing but a movement. And if critics call this an attack on democracy, some election deniers respond by saying the U.S. is not a democracy, it is a republic.

Letter: Contrary to Pat Bagley, the distinction between a republic and pure democracy is real “And to the republic for which it stands.” Don’t Be Buffaloed | Pat Bagley ...

Among Arab states, tiny, oil-rich Kuwait has long stood out as less repressive. Though hardly a pure democracy — a hereditary emir wields decisive authority — Kuwait has an independent and ...

Ex-GOP candidate says ‘pure democracy not the way to run a country’ ‘I thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot,’ Rick ...