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In a true democracy, everyone votes on all group decisions.
Our founders realized that this was impractical.
Instead, we democratically freely elect people who will vote on our behalf. Those are our representatives. We have three branches of government, of which the Executive and Legislative are elected (technically, the Chief Executive is elected by a representational body as well, the Electoral College). The Judicial Branch is appointed, but is supposed to be confirmed by the upper Legislative Branch (the Senate). The Legislative has two bodies which we popularly elect, the House of Representatives and the Senate. The three bodies are intended to both support, and to provide checks against one another. Note that when this system was developed and the Constitution written, there was no similar system in existence.
As I understand it, we are a republic of states, with a system based on the Constitution. We are what we are, whether we like it or not.
IMHO, any state which has to use the words democratic, people's, or republic in their name does not reflect any of those concepts.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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