A Constitutional Republic – Can We Keep It?
12/30/2008
[Ed. note ... So you say our nation is a Democracy???
Think again!!!]
When Ben Franklin exited the Constitutional Convention after its work was done, a woman asked him, “….. Sir, what have you given us”. Ben’s response was, “…… a ‘Republic’ ma’am, if you can keep it.” To the detriment of American freedom, Mr. Franklin’s prophetic words have gone unheeded. We have not kept the Republic for which it stands. We have morphed into majority rule, a Democracy.
Earlier this year we uncovered legislation in Washington State that mandated the teaching of the U. S. and State Constitutions and the American form of government in various grades, from elementary through high school. In digging deeper we discovered that this law was not exclusive to Washington State, but was being mandated by legislation originated in 1994 by the U. S. Congress. We were aghast to learn that what they were teaching with their universal text books from this legislation, was not a Constitutional Republic, but a Constitutional Democracy. The differences are night and day.
The word “Democracy” does not appear anywhere in the Declaration of Independence, or the U. S. Constitution, or in any of the state constitutions. The Founders knew what a Democracy meant, which is majority rule, so they set up a Republic, which is government under the rule of law. The U. S. Constitution was to be and still is, the Supreme Law of the Land and it was to be and is the foundation of all law in America. That foundation was based on the unalienable rights of the individual and it was government’s duty to preserve, protect and defend those rights.
Harold
I does not seem like there is either a democracy or a republic, at the moment. We appear to be under minority rule, with abortion groups, atheists (officially a minority), Muslims, and homosexuals demanding changes in the law to suit them. The majority has no say. No one asks us to vote. Maybe we should just get rid of representatives, and vote ourselves.