"Are we there yet?"

That familiar phrase has been the cry of many a young child on a car trip that seemed never-ending. Now that phrase is being asked and answered by many adults when it comes to what was once democracy in the United States of America.

What exactly is a democracy, you ask. The sixth edition of Black's Law Dictionary, sixth edition gives the best definition that anyone can find.

A democracy is “that form of government in which the sovereign power resides in and exercised by the whole body of free citizens directly or indirectly through a system of representation, as distinguished from a monarchy, aristocracy, or oligarchy”

A democracy is further defined by Merriam-Webster Advanced Learners English Dictionary (2017) as an organization or situation in which everyone is tr

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