Democracy

I asked all of you today if we lived in a democracy. Thankfully, most of you answered correctly--we do not. We live in a democratic republic; that is, we elect our representitives, senators, governors, presidents democratically and then those leaders, in turn, make decisions that are allegedly in our best interests. What would you think of the ability to vote for each issue, bill, or proposition, rather than leaving it up to our elected leaders? Some of those ideas are explained in the two viewpoints of Democracy we read today.
Read: Carl Becker's "Democracy" and E.B. White's essay of the same name on p. 882 - 884 of the Norton Reader. TAP both essays. On p. 883, answer questions 1 - 2. On p. 884, answer questions 1 - 3.

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