Who enacts these laws?
In America laws must be legislated; that is, they are passed into law by elected legislatures. Occasionally, men try to pronounce laws that are not passed by such a legislative process.
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- #FOUND11 Why are laws passed by legislatures, and not directly by the people? (Foundations of the Republic) That is called a democracy, but America is not a democracy. We are a representative republic, wherein we vote officials into power to legislate on our behalf.
- #FOUND10 What is such a non legislative government called? (Foundations of the Republic) This kind of government, one in which laws are made binding without passing a legislatures, is called despotism or tyranny.
- #FOUND12 Why is America not a democracy? (Foundations of the Republic) It is impractical for all the people to gather in a single assembly. Likewise, not all people have the moral, mental or spiritual aptitude to directly govern through democracy.
- #FOUND13 Which of these ways of governing a nation is best? (Foundations of the Republic) The best government governs the least, while yet protecting life, liberty and property.
- #JUD265 Has any State the right to set up a monarchical form of government for itself, that is a government where the supreme power is in the hands of a king? (Courts, States, and Constitutional Order) No. At the time of our nation's founding the colonies were all individual republics. The new government they formed for the union of these republics was itself a representative republican model, which...