Posted on 11/07/2004 11:42:48 PM PST by bad company
He was in the other office when I heard his voice. But he was getting closer and closer and then he came through the door into the editorial offices.
“Hey,” he said when he spotted me.
“Mac,” I said, surprised he was there.
Mac, of course, is O.E. MacDougal, our poker-playing friend from southern California.
We exchanged pleasantries and I asked, “What are you doing here?”
“I’m on my way up north to meet some friends I’m going fishing with. Anything happening here?”
“Nope,” I said and just as quickly added, “But there is one thing, a few readers wrote in with a criticism of some of the things I’ve written.”
He eyed me expectantly.
“The gist of it is they say we bandy the word democracy around a little too freely. They said the United States isn’t a democracy, it’s a republic and that nowhere in the Constitution is it said we’re a democracy.”
“But nowhere does it say that the United States is a republic, either” he said.
“Sure it does, in Article IV, Section 4, it does.”
“If I’m not mistaken,” Mac said, “that’s the only place a form of the word republic appears and what it says is that the states are guaranteed the right to have a republican form of government.”
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like OPrah wants another donut -- ha!
Democracy is not a form of governemt, is a method to empower government.America is a republic.
That was a big, "IF." Were we, are we, shall we be up to the task? Kind of hard to say. The 'great experiment' is still ongoing and I think it's way too early to say if the experiment is going to fail or not. We have a whole generation of people who have no idea what unalienable rights are and have been educated to believe the state grants whatever freedoms they have.
That's my take too
Yes, our public school system is a disaster. GOD HAS GIVEN US OUR RIGHTS.
Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution states: "The United States Shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government..."
That doesn't sound optional to me.
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