Comments by "BlackFlagsNRoses" (@blackflagsnroses6013) on "Is The U.S. a Democracy Or a Republic? It's Neither." video.

  1. There have been radical democrats who defined or described a state more the republic the more it was democratic. Yes the constitutional aspect protects individual and civil liberties and rights that the democracy cannot interfere not infringe upon, but the governing administration was to be, to some of the founding insurrectionist revolutionaries, democratic. Paine of course was a stalwart of democracy in republicanism. And Thomas Jefferson, who many conservatives believe is their philosophical forerunner (not really he was liberal) believed in decentralized direct democracy. Jefferson presented the idea in a letter to Samuel Kercheval in July, 1816. "The true foundation of republican government," Jefferson wrote, "is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property, and in their management". In that letter Jefferson outlined the need for "ward republics," small units of local government, within Virginia's existing counties, which he thought were too large for direct participation of all the voters. He proposed to divide the counties into "wards of such size as that every citizen can attend, when called on, and act in person … will relieve the county administration of nearly all its business, will have it better done, and by making every citizen an acting member of the government, and in the offices nearest and most interesting to him, will attach him by his strongest feelings to the independence of his country, and its republican constitution". Doesn’t get any more democratic than that political theory which radical democratic socialists like Murray Bookchin would agree with.
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