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Update: New Hampshire Legislature-Supreme Court Confrontation on Federal Health Care Act
Yesterday, on a 258-112 vote, the (huge) New Hampshire House of Represnetatives voted to repudiate a state Supreme Court advisory opinion telling the legislature that it can't order the state's Attorney General to oppose the federal health care legislation. See "New Hampshire Constitutional Sho...
In 2010 and 2011, the Chief Justice of Georgia referred to the state of Georgia as a "democracy" in her state of the judiciary address. A resolution to "inform [the Chief Justice] the State of Georgia is a republic and not a democracy" was filed after each occurrence.
However Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue in 2010 made three separate references to the U.S. and/or Georgia as being a "democracy". No similar resolution was introduced.
http://gaveltogavel.us/site/2011/02/24/georgia-house-again-considers-informing-chief-justice-georgia-is-not-a-democracy/
http://gaveltogavel.us/site/2010/04/09/house-considers-informing-chief-justice-georgia-is-not-a-democracy/
Republic or Representative Democracy?
by Karl Kurtz In our work on NCSL's Trust for Representative Democracy, from time to time we receive comments or questions about our use of the term "representative democracy." Two recent ones include: "Since we are a constitutional republic, is there a reason why the term representative democra...
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