If I'm remembering my high school Govt. class ( over 15 years ago ) properly, in a democracy everybody has a direct vote for the leaders. In a republic, representatives of the people elect the leaders. And in a democratic republic like ours, the people elect the delegates that then elect the leaders.
This is why even when a presidential candidate wins the popular vote, he can still lose the election, because he did not have an enough votes from the electoral collage (the delegates chosen by the people to cast the electoral ballot). Absolutely nothing says that the delegate elected by the people has to cast their ballot for the person that the people elected him them to vote for. Greg H. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 10:56 Subject: [biofuel] Re: BP chief fears US will carve up Iraqi oil riches > > Message: 21 > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:12:30 -0500 > From: "Steve Spence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Re: BP chief fears US will carve up Iraqi oil riches > > the USA is a democratic Republic. Not a true democracy. > > Steve Spence > > > What's the difference? > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
