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From: aouriri@ittvax.ATC.ITT.UUCP (Chedley Aouriri)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Is America a Democracy
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Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 09:33:22 EST
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> make decisions on behalf of their electorate.  We call ourselves
> a representative democracy because every adult citizen is entitled
> to vote for his/her representative, although the voting strength
> is not perfectly uniform across the populace.
> 
> --Barry Kort

In theory, the american political system can be called a
representative democracy, because of the ONE MAN/ONE VOTE 
principle.
However, in practice , the system is not adequately representative,
because the actual principle of representation is ONE DOLLAR/ ONE
VOTE. Thus you find numerically small groups of the population
over represented and over influential thru their lobbies, due to their
dollar power. Conversely, you also find numerically large groups of
americans under-represented and marginally influential, due to
their lack of sufficient dollar power.

Chedley Aouriri.
ITT-ATC, Shelton,CT.