I didn't know this, I really didn't. I've been alive for over five decades and I did not understand that the good old US of A was not a democracy. It's a REPUBLIC. A Constitutional Republic to be more exact. The difference between these has been hard for me to grasp but I'm starting to get it. Our founding fathers, (god bless their souls), feared democracy as much as they hated monarchy. They even referred to democracy as MOBocracy, i.e., if the majority of people want something at the expense of the minority, it shall be. Whereas a constitutional republic is a representative based democracy controlled by the law, the CONSTITUTION. Our constitution was written to protect the rights of the INDIVIDUAL, irrespective of what the majority wants. Now if we can only get our elected representatives to read the constitution and understand what their function in life is supposed to be.
God I feel stupid!
