What Is the right name for a Democrat's Party the Democrat Party or the De

[wankawanka]

mocratic Party?

[GRLMGC]

1. Democratic Party

Democrat is a noun and can't modify another noun
Democratic modifies party because it's an adjective.
Those damn Repugs need to learn how to speak English!

[latteromden]

2. The Democratic Party. The way "those other guys" say it always bugs me.

We ARE the only one out of the two that believes in real democracy, after all.

[LostInAnomie]

3. It always cracks me up when a Repube says...

... "The USA is a republic, not a democracy." I usually ask them if they know the difference, and they never do.

[wankawanka]

4. I'm not sure i do is a republic when you elect officials that then decide an

d a democracy is when the people decide thing directly?

[straw_citizen]

5. republic democracy sovereign

Both 'republic' and 'democracy' have been bastardized these last several decades, imo, by deliberate skewing of reality, willful ignorance and apathy.

http://www.dictionary.com

REPUBLIC:
A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president.

A nation that has such a political order.

A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them.

A nation that has such a political order.
often Republic A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.

An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.

A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.



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DEMOCRACY

Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.

A political or social unit that has such a government.
The common people, considered as the primary source of political power.

Majority rule.

The principles of social equality and respect for the individual within a community.



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SOVEREIGN (individual or entity)

One that exercises supreme, permanent authority, especially in a nation or other governmental unit, as:
A king, queen, or other noble person who serves as chief of state; a ruler or monarch.
A national governing council or committee.
A nation that governs territory outside its borders.
A gold coin formerly used in Great Britain.

adj.
Self-governing; independent: a sovereign state.
Having supreme rank or power: a sovereign prince.
Paramount; supreme: Her sovereign virtue is compassion.

Of superlative strength or efficacy: a sovereign remedy.
Unmitigated: sovereign contempt.

[LostInAnomie]

6. Essentially

It is a stupid argument to make because the type of government has nothing to do with what the parties advocate. When is the last time you heard a Democrat railing for direct legislation from the masses, or a Republican pledging at a rally to give more power to elected officials?

If anything the two parties would want the opposite of their names. The Repubes would want to legislate by mob rule, and Democrats would want to pull the country along by way of enlightened leaders who represent the best interests of the country.

[straw_citizen]

9. apples and oranges, true

Party designations are not the same as their noun counterparts. However, when a meaning seems to be elusive I head for a dictionary as a starting place.

Aside from that, I was always under the impression that most of us, excluding Native Americans and illegals, are supposed to believe we live democratically in a republic in which those we elect support our sovereignty as individual Americans. Neither democracy nor a republic exists without legitimate voting though, so reality is another thing.

[norml]

7. It's The Democratic Party, and you know it.

You're not fooling anybody.

[wankawanka]

8. ?

[norml]

11. Don't play dumb, you know what you're doing.

It's obvious to most everyone here.

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

10. Republic Party and Democratic Party

[norml]

12. I've heard that they prefer to be called The Repub Party.

Repubs should always be treated with the respect they deserve.

[InvisibleBallots]

15. no, it's fashionable to drop the "Re" - they are the Publican party

They are Publicans from the Publican party. I think it's in their new handbook. :)

[orpupilofnature57]

13. Democratic, should be an action, more than a title, like a rose.

[mogster]

14. Democracy is the vessel in which all the ideologies compete

If they're democratically inclined.
It is not a governing system like a republic.

If any ideology exceeds that thought and turns democracy into an 'ideology' equal to other ideologies, this is a sign of extremism--and just not true.

Democracy is the foundations, the Republic is the inner structure that enables the house to stand, and the ideology is merely the brickworks and the number of doors and windows you choose to have.

And, sometimes, the garden gnomes.