Democracy Quote by Mehdi Hasan

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

— Noam Chomsky

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

— Ted Yoho

In America, we do not have a democracy. It's not what we have. We have a representative republic and therefore the rules and regulations…

— Rush Limbaugh

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

— Rush Limbaugh

“The United States of America, as defined in The Constitution thereof, is not a democracy, nor was it ever envisioned as such or intended…

— Joseph Befumo

“Americans have always thought they had a democracy form of government. We don’t. We have a constitutional republic – a representative form of government.”

— David R. Johnson

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica…

— Gore Vidal

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose…

— Anonymous

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

— Rush Limbaugh

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

— Llewellyn Rockwell