Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:48:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fact Message-ID: <3D1B7A37.218519C1@mindspring.com> References: <20020625135153.M403-100000@localhost> <5.1.1.6.2.20020625121305.03d1f270@pop3s.schulte.org> <20020625120402.A7861@cygnus.wks.Gallup.cia-g.com> <00d201c21cbd$3b9ff2d0$1ba8c8cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> <20020626122805.GA18636@energyhq.homeip.net> <008501c21d1f$d82e4d60$b46dc5cb@corrsl7vs6l3tz> <5.1.0.14.0.20020626121706.00b14d58@mail.richardh.wsonline.net> <5.1.0.14.0.20020626131021.00afddb8@mail.richardh.wsonline.net> <xzp1yat1v32.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3D1A5651.3EBD7B44@mindspring.com> <20020627220247.A37273@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Terry Lambert said on Jun 26, 2002 at 17:03:29: > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Unlike the US, India has a democratically elected government. > > > > India's Prime Minister is elected by direct popular voting? > > As an MP, he is, from a constituency. The parliament (lower house) is > elected directly, and the PM is chosen indirectly from the MPs, and > must command the confidence of the lower house (more or less the > British system). > > But in India, the Supreme Court doesn't come into the picture at all... It was a facetious question. I asked it because the election of the PM from the MPs by the MPs is similar to the way that the U.S. electoral college elects the U.S. President and Vice President, and the candidates for each party are elected by prty representatives, which are popularly elected within their district. In the U.S., it's only the President and Vice President who are not elected democratically (in fact, the form is "Republic", not "Democracy", but only for those two offices). This is an artifact of historical communications latency. In India's case, this is a matter of design. It was a criticism of DES's criticism of the U.S. election process as being "not a Democracy". -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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