We do not have a democracy.
We have a Constitutional Republic with Concurrent Voting for assent and Common Law for Dispute resolution. If you do not know what concurrency and Commonality mean, if you do not know what rule of law means, and if you do not know what a republic means you do not understand our government and how important, brilliant, and empirical it is.
Concurrency (agreemnt) between classes and regions.
Commonality (agreemnt) between courts in the resolution of differences across classes and regions.
Republic: (agreement) the combination of rule of law with elected representatives.
Rule of Law: (limits) all persons, institutions, and entities, public and private, including the state itself, are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced, and independently adjudicated – and in the Anglosphere, where legislation regulation and findings of the court must preserve natural law.
Natural Law: The Natural Law (Of Cooperation) requires preservation of self determination by self determined means, by individual sovereignty and demand for reciprocity in display word and deed.
Natural Rights, and Human rights are attempts to articulate natural law.
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