Graywolf wrote:
I think a republic does not have to be a democracy. A democracy on the other hand pretty much has to be a republic if it is the government of much more than a town. The way we elect the president in the US is diffinately not a democratic process.
graywolf
Why cetainly it is, Tom!
Each person has his or her very own vote in the process. If they deign to vote at all, that is.
Now, if you mean a one man, one vote process, where we tell the States' representatives to go home, and each vote has the same strength, well, that's another ball of snakes. I forget why, but my reading tells me that is (supposed to be) so.
It would seem, intuitively, that if you dump all the levels of interference between the person voting and the people counting all the votes, and let each tick mark count as one vote...how better can it be done?
keith
