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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Maybe because clarity in language is one method of promoting understanding.

For example, a vegan is a vegetarian *technically,* but a vegetarian is not
a vegan.

A public school charter school may have children study at home but that
doesn't make them homeschoolers.

Donkeys and zebras may be equines but that doesn't make them horses.

Apples and oranges are both fruits but that doesn't make an apple an orange.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] The Constitution


>
> >How can we take anyone seriously when they refer to the U.S. as a
> >democracy.  It is a republic . . . .
> >
> > > Why New Rules?
> > > Because the old ones don't work any longer. They undermine local
> >economies, subvert democracy, . . .
>
> You are knee-jerking and not reading carefully. "They" speak of old rules
> that subvert democracy; they do not say America is a democracy.
>
> But now that you mention it, I find the insistence on the distinction to
be
> tedious. What useful purpose does it serve? The USA fits both definitions.
> Here is the Webster definition of "democracy":
>
> 1  a government by the people: esp. : rule of the majority  b: a
government
> in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them
> directly or indirectly through a system of representation usu. involving
> periodically held free elections."
>
> Sounds pretty much like the USA to me.
>
> Here is the definition of "republic":
>
> a  (1): a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who
> in modern times is usu. a president  (2) a political unit  (as a nation)
> having such a form of government  b  (1): a government in which supreme
> power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by
> elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing
> according to law  (2) a a political unit (as a nation) having such a form
> of government  c : a usu. specified republican government of a political
> unit, the French Fourth Republic>   . . . .
>
> Again, sounds pretty much like the USA to me.
>
> What is the point of beating on a distinction?
>
>
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