Via PoliPundit, a smashingly astounding display of ignorance:
Starting at noon on September 1 2006, major websites and blogs all across the internet will replace their front pages with the single word “Impeach” in simple white text on a black background. (See this page for an example.) For 24 hours, web surfers and blog readers will see that word first when they visit their favorite sites. In this way, we hope to get the public talking about the one tool guaranteed by the Founders to restore our Constitutional Democracy.
(Emphasis is mine.)
My objection, friends, in a mere seven words: The United States is a Constitutional Republic.
It’s tempting to assume that the United States is a democracy, especially if you go by dim memories of what you recall from elementary school and those pesky required high school courses in American Government. Put simply, though, a pure democracy is mob rule. The Founding Fathers, quite sensitive to the potential failings of such a government, chose to set up a system of checks and balances which limits the power of the government.
Here’s what Wikipedia says:
… The fact that a constitution exists that limits the government’s power, makes the state constitutional. That the head(s) of state and other officials are chosen by election, rather than inheriting their positions, and that their decisions are subject to judicial review makes a state republican.
There’s a lot more where that came from. I encourage everyone who believes that either
- our government is a democracy, or
- our government should be a democracy instead of a constitutional republic with democratically elected officials
to read the entire entry on Wikipedia.
Mob rule ain’t pretty, folks.