In honor of the reasons our men and women fight, which element of our democracy is most important to the public?

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Submitted by Fairview Angel on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 10:15.

An informed public

Submitted by Dumping Ground on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 10:43.

Sometimes our government acts outside the bounds of its mission. It's up to the people to correct their government. The peoples main source of their governments actions is a free press.

We the People of the United

Submitted by bizgrrl on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 10:48.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

"The people" is not an option in the poll. As in the preamble to The United States Constitution, "We the People" of the United States are the most important part of our government. We must always be vigilant to ensure this country remains great.

I also think the people are very important

Submitted by local_yokel on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 11:20.

However, without a free press, we have neither access to news of what our gov't is doing so that we CAN be vigilant nor a voice in disputing or lauding those actions where called for. Our voice includes voting, of course, and it is difficult to be an informed voter without free press.

I'm sorry I'm not old enough

Submitted by Fairview Angel on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 11:29.

I'm sorry I'm not old enough ever to have known a legislative vote for war in the name of the people. In my lifetime those have always been executive decisions based on bad intelligence. The people also typically fall for the bad intelligence when it's sold to them by the media.