Main Entry: de·moc·ra·cy
Pronunciation: di-'mä-kr&-sE
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -cies
1 a : government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b : a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or
indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Would you now like to explain why America isn't a democracy?
Perhaps someone should inform these guys that this isn't 1800, and that the system we use to now is different then the the founding fathers established.
[ 02-07-2005, 01:29 PM: Message edited by: Seraph ]