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Why is the word "democracy" not in the preamble of the US Constitution?

Last Updated: 19.06.2025 14:57

Why is the word "democracy" not in the preamble of the US Constitution?

Why? Try these on for size:

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Meanwhile, when the Democratic Party formed in 1828, it was with a Tory outlook keen on robbing others of their rights:

What techniques can be used to sing like Freddie Mercury if one is unable to hit high notes?

—Benjamin Franklin

—Alexis de Tocqueville

To Indians: “Pack up what belongings you can carry and start walking to Oklahoma. Your fertile lands are ours now. We voted fair and square and your side lost.”

Why are girls supposed to have a stereotypical "hourglass" body shape, and why if you dont have an "hourglass" body shape you get treated differently? It doesnt make any sense to me.

—Thomas Jefferson

To slaves: “You can forget your notions of freedom. We voted fair and square and your side lost.”

In other words, our Founding Fathers and other Whig intellects of that time well understood that democratic methods are the surefire means to do serious damage to the rights guaranteed under republican self-government.

Is it common for girlfriends to have close male friends who are single and not related to them?

Majority-rules democracy is the way that majorities run roughshod over minorities, destroying rights and all ideas of equality under the law. No fair-minded person wants anything to do with democracy.

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

How can Democrats not feel hypocritical when they urge Trump not to be vengeful should be become president when the Democrats are trying to put Trump into prison?

To blacks: “You can’t drink from that water fountain… eat in this cafeteria… ride this bus… go to this school. We voted fair and square and your side lost.

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons.

—John Adams

Have you ever been forced to undress for money just once?

[with republicanism being the rights-protecting form of governance afforded us by our Constitution]