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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BGR who wrote (86622)	12/12/2000 12:32:14 AM
From: Richard Nehrboss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

BGR, I'm definitely not an expert on the subject, but I'll give it a shot. A true democracy has the people vote on almost all issues. Whereas a Republic (Authoritarian Republic in the case of the US) puts a buffer of (supposedly), more intelligent cool headed people in the middle. We elect them, they make the real decisions. A good example is the electoral college. Our founders wanted well educated (or thoughtful, whatever) men to excercise their own judgement in electing a president. Richard