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Re:NYTimes Sues US For Refusing To Reveal Secret Interpretat... by mbell on Monday October 10, 2011 @11:43PM (#3097000)
The USA is not a Democracy (in the pure sense), it is a Democratic Republic, this is a critical difference that is missed or not understood by the majority of the populous and is critically important not only in this instance but in the general case.
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Re:NYTimes Sues US For Refusing To Reveal Secret Interpretat... by gnaritas on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @03:21AM (#3097558)
The US is a democracy, a word that describes a category of governments one of which is our democratic republic and another of which is a direct democracy; both are types of democracies. Stop this we're not a democracy non-sense, it's absurd.
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