IF it is the people, then is not democracy a form of communism?
Is the sovereignty, the three branches? Would not soverignty be a rule, an idea, a principle, that is made up by the people?
Mostly, would be buisnessmen, protection, priveieges, more benefits?
would not this be a form of oligarchy?
I am starting to understand why democracy is right, and went against Aristotle.
no, democracy is rule by the mob.
that’s it.
-Imp
Who is vito Carleno?
Hi dan,
If by a sovereign you mean “who holds all the power”? The answer is – no one. The power is shared. In fact, in the political theory I’ve read, there is no sovereign but God. So in a mixed government, each branch has a chance for reason to hit them and check any other branch: – which is an advantage over humans claiming sovereignty.
mrn
That would explain why anarchy reigns supreme. 
the three branches- one must hold the power ?
Either all the three branches are the soverign or it does not, and it is ideas that are put into the positions to the branches.
How can the people play the role of soverignty?
There is no soverign but God? won’t this be a natural law, not a legal law?
that’s not democracy
-Imp
I think that legal laws, in a free state, should be based on the natural law.
And Impenitent has a point in his first two responses. Are we speaking of a straight democracy in this question, or of a democratic republic?
The constitution is sovereign.
no, the constitution is a scrap of paper.
the us official/citizen with the gun is sovereign.
-Imp
Until the gun works contrary to the constitution, then it is a rebellion and a setting up of a new state.
Then the only thing you can do is to impeach the president. 
no, then you join in the revolution and eliminate the revolutionaries.
-Imp
Why would you be concerned with the constitution when the gunholder is sovereign? Didn’t you call it “a scrap of paper,” Impenitent? Or were you joking/being cynical there?
(I find philosophising while cynical to be problematic in practice.)
the cynics were/are grand philosophers.
-Imp
Then I guess we have reached a point where we recognize that only death is sovereign.
death is soverign =D>
or life can be soverign .
it has been such since life began.
-Imp
AS krishnamurti would say, "it is misfortunate that man will not look inwards, therefore will futher kill other human beings. "
the senior seminar project I am doing on.
there is no sovereign ruler in a democracy.
soverignity, or whatever the term is, refers to an absolute authority, as IMP implide, a democracy is controlled by the people, which is shared equally.
as to your original question about it being like a communist gov’t though, it is different in who owns the property and goods. in a democracy, the people own their own property and goods. in a communist country the gov’t controls it all and apportions it out. no one can gain or lose in regards to their neighbor.