Re: Democracy or Republic

[Greg Brown <gregb@alaskapacific.edu>]

WMSteed@aol.com wrote:

> Ron Paul, Congressional Representative from Texas, has put forward the
> following to remind everyone that this is a REPUBLIC, NOT A DEMOCRACY, and to
> re-affirm our Constitutional Presidential electoral process.

>              Whereas such a national popular election for President and
>
> Vice President disregards the constitutional integrity and inviolability
>
> of the 50 states as independent and sovereign governments;

   This resolution is completely hypocritical.  If our 50
states are "independent" and "sovereign" then why did an
ideologically conservative Supreme Court stop Florida state
officials from completing its own election process?  The very
same conservatives who spend so much of their energy railing
against the abusive power of the federal government, now cheer on
the federal government via the Supreme Court as it
squashes Florida's state election process?  Hypocrisy has
reached a new level in conservative (Republican?) ideology.

--
Greg Brown (gregb@alaskapacific.edu)
Associate Professor, Environmental Science Dept.
Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, AK  99508
(907) 564-8267  FAX: (907) 562-4276