Facsim was elected to power in Germany legally if anyone bothers to look it up, not in fact put into power by a coup.

True democracy never really existed except mabey in its infancey and then only very briefly in ancient greece as far as western standards of it are conserned and even then it was a limited democracy in practice. Like vote for who you want your tyrant to be for the next few years. It had so many problems in Athens that it was revised by allmost every single ruler to suit his needs at the time, and only really fuctioned because it only involved about 10-30th "citezens" in the voting proccess. The Republican form of government that the United States of America adopted is more influence based on a mixture of some of the English and French systems modified from its Roman predessessors(which is one reason we have a senate). Who were in turn influenced by the greek colonists in southern italia that exposed oligarchial rule after the fall of athens to sparta in the thirty year peloponisian war. The Romans like ourselves (Americans) were in the proccess of overthrowing the tyrantical rule of what they considered a foriegn king when they made thier republic.

Unlike parlimentary systems of government that need a clear "majority" that must collect several multi party minorities to its side to rule,(like Brittian. Isrealand many others), America uses a "driect" representation method of government, in other words you vote for an individual representing his party, not a party that chooses an individual upon election, thus resulting in the need to consolodate in groups for strength makeing a basically two party system with many goals as oposed to a multi party system as we see in parlimentary governments.

As for the guns, Americans are divided on the issue to some degree, not as divided as we are over abortion but divided. The supreme court of the usa has only ruled that we have a "RIGHT" to bear arms that should not be infriged upon according to thier very learned interpetation of current constitutional law. I would not begin to say that these honorable men and wemon are 300yrs behind the times in anyway shape or form, our nation is a young one and only reached two hundred years in 1976 after a very long and ardourous amount of "reasearch" as to the BEST type of governemnt possible to function and yet preserve individual freedoms. of which the amendments to our consittution including the 1-10th were INSISTED upon by the majority of people of that age to be included in our consittution before they would all ratify it as law. If anything our governement system is a couple of hundred years ahead of most of western europes that is based on "old" dynamics raised out of fueadalism and modified by Cromwell to suit his needs when he overthrew his King.

The surpreme courts dicission is a modern interpetation of current law no more no less.