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Today the term republic usually refers to representative democracy with an elected head of state, such as a president, who serves for a limited term; in contrast to states with a hereditary monarch as a head of state, even if these states also are representative democracies, with an elected or appointed head of government such as a prime ...
That said, the nation needs a healthy conservative party for the good of our democracy. Today’s Republican Party is neither healthy nor conservative. It’s extremist.
A Republican National Committee official told NBC News that the organization has already recruited “tens of thousands” of people to serve in these roles and has hired paid election integrity ...
Republican leadership in the House has rejected the congressional Jan. 6 investigation as a partisan spectacle; neither of the two Republicans on the panel, Reps. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Liz ...
The Republican party rejects cap-and-trade policy. [38] Some Republicans support increased oil drilling in protected areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, [39] a position that has drawn sharp criticism from some environmental activists. Republican voters are divided over the human causes of climate change and global warming. [40]
More broadly, in Federalist No. 10, Madison distinguished a democracy from a republic. Jefferson warned that "an elective despotism is not the government we fought for." [80] Madison wrote: In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents.
SANFORD, North Carolina (Reuters) - "Be aggressive," Jim Womack, a local Republican Party chair in North Carolina, told the grid of faces who joined the Zoom training session for volunteers to ...
What The New Chair Steering Republican Governors Told Fox News. The 50-year-old Sununu, who when he was first elected in 2016 was the nation's youngest governor, has also, for months, repeatedly ...