Our Founding Fathers crafted a
Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.
– Steve King
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- Obama might think of himself as one, but he is not a dictator. We are not a banana republic yet. This is not an authoritarian form of government. This is a constitutional republic, and the president doesn’t allow or disallow. The president can’t buy or purchase. – Rush Limbaugh
- I’m a great aficionado of history. I was deeply affected by seeing the disintegration of any chance of democracy coping with fascism in the Weimar republic, where woolly-minded, well-meaning liberalism actually allowed the forces of darkness to use democracy, to exploit democracy, to overturn democracy. – David Blunkett
- The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz’s influence was suppressed. – Robert Trout
- If our republican form of government is perishing because communications – the infrastructure of that republic – is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order. – Mark Lloyd
- If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist. – Steve Stockman
- In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that ‘taxation without representation is tyranny,’ she is taxed without being represented. – Ernestine Rose
- “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” – Winston S. Churchill
- Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw
- Regardless of the changes in technology, the market for well-crafted messages will always have an audience. – Steve Burnett
- Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. – Anna Howard Shaw