Different ways to pass laws, elect people, etc.
Vote more diluted
What is something that happens to you when you are in a democracy instead of a republic (because you are in a larger group instead of just one chunk out of several)?
Faction
What is a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united in and actuated by some common impulse of passion or of interest adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community?
Financially independent
What is every branch of govt must be this from each other or they are not truly independent of each other?
General rule of thumb
What is if a country calls itself, "the democratic ___," it probably is not?
Other dislikers of (direct) democracy
Who were Plato and Socrates?
Curing the problem of factions
What is remove its causes or control its effects?
Extensive republics' being better than small ones
What is it is because 1.there is more likelihood of fit people to choose from for the govt, 2. each rep will be chosen by more citizens and so harder for him to win by just using flattery, bribery, promises of entitlement, etc., 3. the smaller the society the fewer the interest likely to be in it and and the fewer the interests, the easier for just a few people to be the same majority and the smaller number of people needed and the smaller area of which they have to carry out their evil plans and communicate with each other and with fewer people less of a chance they'd accidentally initiate someone into their group who would give them away?
Stopping majority from ignoring minority interests
Our leaders' radicalism
What is evidence that our republic is working in the sense that the govt is reflecting the people's preferences?
The French government after the monarchy was overthrown
What had far fewer checks and balances than the US does, with no limits on the assembly's power and no 2nd legislative branch?
What is one would destroy liberty, which is essential to factions (which is bad) or give everyone the same opinions, passions, and interests (which is impractical)?
Caveat
What is if there are too few electors they are too little concerned with local things but if there are too many electors they are too little concerned w/ national things?
Functions all governments must do
What is reading/writing, executing, and judging the laws of the country?
Democracy
What is a system of government in which ? make political decisions and exercise power (characterized by competition, participation, and maybe liberal rights)?
Controlling the effects of factions
What is either the faction is in the minority, in which case it will be defeated by reg. vote, or in the majority, in which case it must be nipped in the bud (which is impractical since where opportunity and impulse coincide, you can't do anything to stop them; thus democracy doesn't work, because a passion felt by a few will inevitably spread to the whole) or the govt must be set up in such a way as to prevent factions from doing harm)?
The Constitution's solution to the caveat
What is the local issues will be referred to the state reps and the national ones to the US reps?
Politics vs. political science
What is political science is how the system works (and when done right, should be completely apolitical) and politics is maybe what you should make of it??
Republic
What is the form of government where rulers are held accountable for their actions in the public realm by others and where people hold the power to make decisions indirectly (i.e. through their reps)?
Why people shouldn't be the judges of their own issues
What is just like a judge shouldn't be a judge in his own case, the people shouldn't make decisions in their own cases, either?
The effect of the govt containing a smaller number of citizens
What is it refines and enlarges the public views by passing them through the medium of the best citizens; puts them 1 step removed from being emotionally involved with the local issues?