DEMOCRACY:
· A government of the masses.
· Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.
· Results in mobocracy.
· Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights.
· Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
· Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
REPUBLIC:
· Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
· Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
· A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
· Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.
· Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
· Is the "preferred form" of government throughout the world.
On a side note, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, touted as a hero by many was not the great benefactor school children are lead to believe. About the same time as the aforementioned action FDR made private ownership of our lawful money (US Minted Gold Coins) illegal. Shortly after the people turned in their $20 gold coins, the price was increased from $20 per ounce to $35 per ounce. Almost overnight, F.D.R., the most popular president of the 20th Century (elected 4 times) looted almost half of the individual wealth of the Nation, while convincing the people that it was for their own good. Many of F.D.R.'s policies were suggested by his right hand man, Harry Hopkins, who said, "Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend, Elect and Elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference".
It is time to return to our Republican roots
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