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CNN’s John Avlon writes that new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s words that “we don’t live in a democracy” show there’s a trend among right-wing leaders to dismiss a majoritarian democracy.
The "bedrock principle of democracy, that losing candidates and their supporters accept the results" was no longer supported by most Republicans. [64] Not only did white southerners leave the Democratic party but eventually a large majority of rural and working class whites nationwide became the base of the Republican Party. [65]
The U.S. might have been a “constitutional republic, not a democracy” in the early years of the nation, but it has become constitutional democracy in the years since, due to the efforts of ...
Debates that pit our nation's status as democracy or constitutional republic tend to intensify around specific policy debates or more generally among candidates in high-profile elections, such as ...
The idea that America is "a republic, not a democracy" has been a recurring theme in American Republicanism since the early 20th century. It declared that not only is majoritarian "pure" democracy a form of tyranny (unjust and unstable) but that democracy, in general, is a distinct form of government from republicanism and that the United ...
Prior to the American Revolution in what is now the United States—and before the coming of age of the "crowned republics" of constitutional monarchies in the United Kingdom and other European countries—democracy and republic were "used more or less interchangeably", [6] and the concepts associated with representative democracy and hence ...
While America is not a direct democracy, a constitutionally prescribed representative form of government is just one type of democracy, as political scientist Brian Klaas explained:
As part of Talmadge's 1956 Senate campaign, [18] he published the infamous segregationist pamphlet You and Segregation, [19] arguing that desegregation was a communist plot, that the use of federal power to ban segregation was unconstitutional, and that, in the now-infamous phrase, the United States was a "Republic not a Democracy", since ...