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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (157481)	7/3/2001 5:22:06 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

re·pub·lic (r-pblk) n. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president. A nation that has such a political order. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. A nation that has such a political order. often Republic A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France. An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation. A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters. =============================== de·moc·ra·cy (d-mkr-s) n. pl. de·moc·ra·cies Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. A political or social unit that has such a government. The common people, considered as the primary source of political power. Majority rule. The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (157481)	7/3/2001 5:50:37 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Your second paragraph has a high probability of being correct. Democracy? The people themselves vote directly on the laws. Federal Republic? The people are divided into groups; the groups elect reptresentatives and those representatives vote on the laws. Want to quibble about those definitions? Then original thesis of ColtonGang is wrong since either by these defintions or JLA's or any other reasonable ones, there is nothing that says wealth and money are not allowed to influence the outcome of elections.