Societies develop. Governance is developed within a society. For governance to exist there must be some common consciousness among some members of society and and government, the more the better. There may be nearly an infinity of tentative kinds of governance, but the kinds which develop within a given society depends upon the histories of the members of that society and their present consciousness..
In the U.S. two primary types of governance prevale, republicanism and democracy. Republicanism is the form actuall practiced. They are still prominent, but the members of the society have lost some consciousness and awareness of their natures.
Americans chose republicanism largely because it seemed the most doable of the two, many had hopes for the development of more democratic governance, but today there is some fear that we are losing our Republic. Too many of us may lack understanding of both forms of governance historically important among us. Even fewer seem to understand the difference between the two.
Modes of governance exist because of the awareness and consciousness of them in the people of the society. The nature of a particular form of governance depends on the quality an prevalence of awareness, the awareness and consciousness of the people.
In a republic, the power of governance is stratified. In the US wealth, education, and experience of one gives that person a great deal of opportunity to rule. French "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" is less strongly present in a republic than it typically is in a democracy. So, even the French republic had some pretentions to democracy.
In some parts of our population, awareness of the values of a republic and a democracy is, at least, a fairly strong memory, but in too many of us there seems too little consciousness of the values of republic and democracy.
In that we are the ones responsible for our governance(if we aren't, who is?), it seems best that we know how to work our government pretty well. How are we to govern our counties, towns, cities, states, nation, school districts, and more. Or, have we truly chosen to abdicate that responsibility?
When we choose to govern there are plenty of us to do so, and with practice improvement often happens.
So, is it time for us to consider how to govern? Getting informed is important. There is plenty of information among us. It is possible to honestly share that information. An aid to doing so may be found at the associated blog: Dialogue With RCS. The web address for Dialogue With RCS can be found on this blog on the list of associated blogs. One click there on the Dialogue With RCS will take you directly to the blogsite of Dialogue With RCS.
Also there about 90 posts on governance right here on Governance With RCS. It is possible to learn somthing useful without leaving this blog.
I with little pleasure, let me say that my spellcheck for this site has been lost and also the "comments" app here has also been lost! However, although Dialogue With RCS is also without spellcheck, it does have a working "comments" app! You may use the comments function at Dialogue to make comments about posts on the Governance site. Just mention that the comment, question, or information is for the Governance blog and include the name of the post you are commenting on.
I am willing to talk about governance and dialogue. I will respond to your comments. When you tell me that you like, or liked, some post, I will say "Thanks." When you say something about a detail of content I will say more.
I can say now that I am pretty sure that the more we know about governance to more democracy we can have.
Thank you for reading and bye for now.
rcs