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A Republic, Not An Empire is a 1999 book by American political figure and presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan. The work argues that the United States has become too involved in foreign affairs, and should refrain from interventionism, both military and diplomatic, in favor of focusing on domestic issues.
Democracy. Free and fair elections. ... It doesn’t take a political science expert to realize that the America Trump has in mind can’t coexist with democracy— and that Trump’s most ...
The idea that America is "a republic, not a democracy" has been a recurring theme in American Republicanism since the early 20th century. It declared that not only is majoritarian "pure" democracy a form of tyranny (unjust and unstable) but that democracy, in general, is a distinct form of government from republicanism and that the United ...
CNN’s John Avlon writes that new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s words that “we don’t live in a democracy” show there’s a trend among right-wing leaders to dismiss a majoritarian democracy.
Many public debates about democracy-versus-republic, according to Heersink, are thinly masked attempts to alter or preserve a status quo that benefits a party or candidate for at least the short-term.
Democracy in America, Book 2, Ch I, 1st and 2nd paragraph Such an ambiguous understanding of democracy in a study of great impact on political thought could not help leaving traces. We suppose that it was Tocqueville’s work and not least its title that strongly associated the notion of democracy with the American system and, ultimately, with ...
He makes an argument on how this is not possible in a pure democracy but possible in a republic. With pure democracy, he means a system in which every citizen votes directly for laws (direct democracy), and, with republic, he intends a society in which citizens elect a small body of representatives who then vote for laws (representative democracy).
Our education system should anchor this mutual assimilation in a deep appreciation for the institutions of our constitutional democratic republic, and for why President George Washington in his ...