Democracy vs. 'democracy'

E.J. Dionne, Jr. - Washington Post Writers Group

04.02.07 - WASHINGTON -- "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States."

That is not some reactionary piece of propaganda denying your right to choose the next president. It is one of the more memorable sentences from the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore, the hard-to-forget 2000 case that put the current occupant in the White House for his first term.