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Save our National Republic
We are not a Democracy. Inform the dumb masses. (say that 5 times fast)

The Constitution for the United States of America purportedly guaranteed a Republican form of government, so did the constitutions of the several States. Nowhere in those instruments, nor in the constitutions predecessor, the Articles of Confederacy, is the mention of Democracy. The Founding Fathers didn’t want Democracy and as will be shown, they knew it leads to the destruction of nations employing it. Many of the founders voiced very strongly, and expressly against Democracy. In the understanding of the founders, irrespective of recent decades of judicial legal wording manipulations, Democracy was not a “Republican form” of government.

A Republic is one of the highest forms of government yet devised by man, but it also requires the greatest amount of human focus, care and maintenance. If neglected, it will quickly and silently deteriorate into a variety of less desirable forms of government including Democracy, Anarchy, Oligarchy, or Dictatorship as witnessed by our recent governmental slide. “Representative National Republic” defined herein as a republic that is a “government of laws and not of men”. This definition appears to be most appropriate while accurately describing what the founders intended, to wit:

“Remember, Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet that did not commit suicide”, John Quincy Adams, founder.

“The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, Democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived”, John Quincy Adams, founder.

“A simple Democracy . . . is one of the greatest of evils”, Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence. “Pure Democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state, it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage”, John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

“It may generally be remarked that the more a government resembles a pure Democracy the more they abound with disorder and confusion”, Zephaniah Swift, Author of America’s First Legal Text.

Why are the people promoting Democracy? What the $%^& are we voting for? Don’t you understand that we are partially living in, and voting for more socialistic governance? People, we have been warned that this is societal and political suicide. Democracy does not promote freedom, it lies about promoting freedoms and in the end, by force if necessary, takes all those freedoms away as witnessed by all recorded history, James Madison said:

“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths.”

Virginia’s Edmund Randolph, participating in the 1787 constitutional convention demonstrated a clear grasp of Democracy’s inherent dangers, he reminded his colleagues during the early weeks of the Convention that the purpose for which they had gathered was:

“[T]o provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and trials of Democracy....”

Samuel Adams, Declaration of Independence signatory, championed the new Constitution in his State precisely because it would not create a Democracy, he stated:

“Democracy never lasts long,” “It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.” He insisted, “There was never a Democracy that ‘did not commit suicide’.”

New York’s Alexander Hamilton, in a June 21, 1788 speech urging ratification of the Constitution in his State, thundered:

“It has been observed that a pure Democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.”

Earlier, at the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton stated:

“We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”

Fisher Ames served in the United States Congress during the eight years of George Washington’s presidency. A prominent member of the Massachusetts convention that ratified the Constitution for that State, he thus defined Democracy:

“[A] government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices and ambitions of their leaders.”

On another occasion, he labeled Democracy’s majority rule one of “the intermediate stages towards … tyranny.” Ames later opined:

“Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.”

And in an essay entitled “The Mire of Democracy”, Ames wrote that the framers of the Constitution:

“[I]ntended our government should be a Republic, which differs more widely from a Democracy than a Democracy from a despotism.”

John Marshall, Supreme Court chief justice, 1801-1835, echoed the sentiments of Ames:

“Between a balanced Republic and a Democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

American poet James Russell Lowell warned:

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson joined Lowell in his disdain for Democracy, remarking:

“Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.”

Across the Atlantic, British statesman Thomas Babington Macauly agreed with the Americans:

“I have long been convinced, that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.”

Perhaps the most concise and definitive condemnation of Democracy came from Lord Acton:

“The one prevailing evil of Democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”

In light of the Founders’ view on the subject of Republics and Democracies, it is not surprising that the Constitution does not contain the word “Democracy,” but does mandate:

“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of government.”

By the 20th century however, the falsehoods that Democracy was the epitome of good government and that the Founding Fathers had established such a government for the United States of America became an increasingly widespread fallacy. This mis-information was fueled by President Woodrow Wilson’s famous 1916 appeal that our nation enter World War I “to make the world safe for Democracy”, and by President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1940 exhortation that America “must be the great arsenal of Democracy” by rushing to England’s aid during WWII.

From the U.S. Government Training Manual, No. 2000-25 WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, November 30, 1928 and prepared under direction of the Chief of Staff, under the title of “Citizenship”:

“Democracy: A government of the masses, authority derived through mass meetings or any other form of direct expression; results in mobocracy; attitude toward property is communistic negating property rights; attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences; its result is dem-o-gogism, license, agitation, discontent and anarchy.”

“Republic: Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best suited to represent them. Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights and a sensible economic procedure. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles that establish evidence with a strict regard for consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass, it avoids the dangerous extremes of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice contentment and progress, is a standard for government around the world.”

http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Commentary/Republic_vs_Democracy.htm