Posted on Feb 25, 2016
***(Edited) What form of Government is the US *supposed* to be?
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I seem to get into this type of discussion every few months with some of my friends. I have my opinion of what it is (I'll give in a few days).
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Edited 9 y ago
Posted 9 y ago
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Well, we're supposed to be a representative republic, but that got lost along the way because We the People couldn't keep it. God knows what we are now. It seems that we're adrift with some advocating democracy and others for socialism. Personally, I'd prefer that we go back to the original plan but that seems hopeless inasmuch as most people couldn't properly define any of the choices listed here.
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PO2 Steven Erickson
MSG Brad Sand, you're right, but who's gonna tell the dependent population that Santa has left the building?
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As designed, we are supposed to have a representative republic. As defined in a republic, the rights, liberties and freedoms originate and reside in THE INDIVIDUAL. The government and society cannot take away any of those things... they must be voluntarily GIVEN by the individual. We're supposed to be like THAT, but we're not...
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Capt Lance Gallardo
PO2 Steven Erickson I love the line from Mel Gibson's movie the Patriot, where he says I do not want to exchange one tyrant three thousand miles away (King George) for 300 hundred tyrants a hundred miles away (in the State capital). Basically expressing what Thomas Jefferson is saying in your quote above.
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