Is a representative republic better that a democracy?

The claim that a Republic can't be a democracy (which just means you get to vote - that's it) is yet more pathetic pap for morons, courtesy of Fox News.

Either a Representative Republic or a Democracy can have a Constitution that guarantees minority rights. So, I think the "mob rule" argument is a bit of a red herring.

Really, it's a question of populism versus elitism. I guess the fundamental question is: when it comes down to it, a new proposed law (i.e., a bill) is usually hundreds of pages long and fraught with very precise language. It has an effect on dozens of others bills, and builds on hundreds of other bills. It's a complicated process that requires some serious expertise.

So... do you really want every valet in the country voting on whether HR3456 is good or bad for society? This is a country where nearly 30% of Americans can't even name the Vice President. We're not exactly a nation of policymakers. So we leave that work to the few of us who are policymakers.

1) Constitutional consultant Republic with Democratic ideas. 2) we now have state representatives in Congress that help preserve the interests of the state. Three) The method protects in opposition to the tyranny of the massive states over the smaller states. Four) understanding such laws is a full-time job, not a guessing game. With out a consultant who makes it their trade, those which are informed on such votes would be vastly outnumbered by means of individuals who were not told, and plenty of very foolish decisions could be made. 5) We do verify so much of our regulation in the neighborhood, however the Federal executive has been looking to overstep it's bounds for decades. 6) Your lack of knowledge of our structure and it can be precise structure, together with the motives for the constructions our Founders created is rather ignorant, and your dismissal of it boastful. Either go be taught the explanations for why our constitution is set up the way it's and the motives for those rules, or count on that those of us who have do not have a lot admire for you dismissal of our "magic scroll". Your self, please.

The key to a representative democracy, at least in America, is that there is a basis for managing the system which we call the constitution. Of course, nowadays the POS that infest DC routinely crap all over it with the tacit blessing of the SCOTUS. But that, alas, is the nature of governments. We had a good run though.

To technically have a "direct democracy" in this nation, the entire population would be voting on EVERY SINGLE bill proposed. I don't know about you, but most people have a job and a life.

Thus, we elect officials to vote on laws for us, it is much faster and efficient. It is a "representative" form of democracy.

When you grow up, you'll understand. (If you think you're a grown-up, well, your diatribe above proves you are not, and I don't really care how old you are.)

I am honestly really, really sick and tired of hearing people's desperate ideas as to how to shut the voters up when they don't agree with what the voters said when they spoke. All you're doing here is advocating a way to do that. What you say seems to make sense to you, but it's not fair in the real world. I don't want a bunch of people crammed into a few square miles on each of the coasts telling me how I'm going to live in middle America. It's as simple as that.