America is a Democracy?
Atlantic Free Press, Netherlands
by Richard Backus
Joel Hirschhorn, in recent articles on Atlantic Free Press has encouraged the American public to petition for a constitutional convention under Article V of the constitution in order to rectify the ever-increasing creation of laws harming the interests of the working classes of the U.S. His article, “An Open Letter to John Edwards” supported Mr. Edwards’ opinion that America has become a country of two nations, the rich and the poor, which I call the Privileged and the People. Many people believe that the Constitution of the U.S. established a democracy in which all citizens had an equal say in the running of the government and in the creation of suitable laws. This is simply not true. The Constitution simply set up a republican form of government based upon a separation of powers between congress, the judiciary, and the executive. Nowhere do the words “democracy” or “democratic” appear in this document, which is the sole basis of our federal laws. [more]