Sentences with phrase «pure democracy»

Let's just go pure democracy and everyone votes.

You just showed one of the failings of pure democracy when it gives no credence to minority rights.

This spectrum stretches from pure democracy, with majority rule, to representative democracies where a subset of the populace speaks for the whole.

This is true of political freedom, as the Founders recognized, which is why they feared pure democracy.

Just to be clear I am not endorsing tyranical or dictatorial types of leadership but I'm also not endorsing pure democracy in the workplace either.

The solution, they argue is to balance pure democracy - i.e., poll - driven majoritarianism - with strong institutions that respect the civil liberties, even of the minorities.

But, given the unsustainability of pure democracy, it's not surprising that by the Eighties we had the bourgeois bohemian mixture of oligarchy and democracy, with bourgeois trumping bohemian at every turn.

Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union.

Morality is largely based upon religious doctrine, and is therefore irrelevant in a pure democracy (basis: Plato's «Republic»).

I get it, it's a marketing ploy of pure democracy and the other four teams have fans with computers, too, but here's the fallout.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

This system allows for a pure democracy which is great in ideal but falls apart for several reasons.

It has been observed that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government.

While the founders disagreed regarding the role of the federal government, none sought to build a pure democracy.

That's one reason the United States is not a pure democracy.

The elector college forms something similar to a pure democracy (there are some caveats, but for simplicity sake it a pure democracy).

Pure democracy is mob rule.

@WS2 a pure democracy is when you and two friends to to the movie theater and you each cast a vote for which show to see.

Again, that's OK, as we're not a pure democracy.

John Witherspoon, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, said «Pure democracy can not subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state — it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage.»

Alexander Hamilton said, «That a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government.

Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policy initiatives directly.

Do those who corruptly line their own pockets while not solving any of our problems not understand that the key difference between a pure Democracy and a Republic lies in the limits placed on government by the laws of a Republic which protect minority rights?

In a pure Democracy the majority is not restrained in this way and can impose its will on the minority.

Do politicians understand the difference between a pure Democracy and a Republic when statements such as the following are made?

In a pure Democracy rule is by the omnipotent majority in which any minority has no protection against the power of the majority.

Alexander Hamilton made a speech on June 21, 1788, in which he stated: «It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government.