A democracy is defined as “a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. Policy matters directly.” In other words, democracy is ruled by the people and they have say in what they want in our government, by voting for everything they want. The government brags about being the first nation to embrace a democratic constitution, but is it really? There are a lot of arguments weather the United States is or is not a democracy government. In fact, The United States is not a democracy. The United States is a republic government, and my reasons being are taxes, the electoral colleges. I will explain each of my reasons one by one why the government is not really a democracy. First example is taxes. Taxes are defined as “a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions.” Taxes are something every …show more content…
The Electoral College procedure contains voters, a conference where the elector’s vote on who they think should be elected as vice president or president, and then the congress counts the number of votes per president. There are about 538 electors, and almost half of them are required to vote for the president. Whoever wins the most votes (around 270) wins the election. The 538 elector’s number comes from 435 representatives, 100 senators and 3 electors in the District of Columbia. So how is this fair to the United States citizens who voted, when really they are not the ones who decide who is