They also feared a foreigner in the Oval Office as Commander in Chief.
That’s why they insisted on a natural born citizen.
Someone who was naturally and solely an American with no possibility of being anything else because they were born here of citizen parents.
Yes, we are suppose to be a republic, a nation of laws. Many confuse republic with the idea of representatives.
A democracy is a mob changing daily as their emotions change.
Our founding fathers created an inefficient government with lot of checks and balances, making it hard to change.
We appear to have screwed it up......................
GREAT article.
“The Constitution of the United States was republican and democratic – but the experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived; and it was obvious that if virtue – the virtue of the people, was the foundation of republican government, the stability and duration of the government must depend upon the stability and duration of the virtue by which it is sustained.”
-John Quincy Adams
‘The Jubilee of the Constitution’
Thank you Mr. Williams.
Thank you thank you thank you!
It really bothers me when people on the Right reference our Democracy. The Democratic party loves it. They derived the name of their party from that premise.
We are Republicans who wax on about the well being of the Democracy. It just drives me nuts to hear that sort of thing.
A well known guy does this too, as in the Doctor of...
And God love him, because I sure do.
We should hammer home the fact that we are a Constitutional Republic, so citizens come to see that has a hard fast never changing fact.
We pray for and wish for the protection of the Republic,...
One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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A democracy is two foxes and one chicken voting on what to have for lunch. It is also the majority party in the House of Representatives voting on impeachment for no valid reason. Too bad our founders did not make the requirement for impeachment to be a super majority.
The dems want a democracy so bad they poject one upon ux, acting as if we were one.
Any time you hear the words “our democracy”, stop, purge your brain of everything said up to that point, and ignore what comes next.
“Walter Williams: America Isn’t a Democracy. In Fact, the Founders Feared Democracy”
Unfortunately it’s a majority rule cluster Obama (as Virginians are finding out the hard way).
The Founders also didn’t have women voting.
If they had, there probably would have been a “Consensus Council” in the Federal Government and a “Forum of Grievances” or some such structures. If you’re going to be honest with yourselves, you should be fully honest. They looked through history at governments of men, governing men to come up with what they did. I don’t know of any government on Earth that was designed around the direct participation of women, and to say that men and women are without difference and interchangeable is idiotic.
They also didn’t have men voting until they were half dead, too, for what it’s worth.
Walter Williams should have been appointed to the SCOTUS...
A brilliant conservative with his background in economics would have introduced a much needed balance that would include the real-world economic needs in order for the United States to protect the Constitution and to restore the Republic (long gone these last 114 years)...
Everything is spot on. I would add also that political parties are also an institution that kills this country.
"Oh sure, you can have witnesses," said the Democrats to the Republicans and the President, "but only by our approval." "And it's not true that the President's counsel isn't allowed to question witnesses," said the Democrats to the Republicans and the President, "except in the hearings conducted by the Intelligence Committee where we're developing the basis for impeachment in secret testimony we control and selectively leak."
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Very good article.
Proof positive that direct democracy doesn’t work...
Americans forced to endure the pains of Obamacare, where the majority democrats voted for the bill, while ALL REPUBLICANS voted against it.
Another example: Majority democrats voted to impeach president Trump, while ALL REPUBLICANS voted against impeachment.
Walter Williams is great. Just great.
It’s interesting that all the politicians who swore and oath to the Constitution never read it. Furthermore, very few ever paid any attention to the words in the Pledge of Allegiance to our Flag.
1. The US is a republic and not a democracy
2. The democrats are the real racists
3. Social Security is an unconstitutional federal power grab
4. Medicare is an unconstitutional federal power grab
5. The word "welfare" in the constitution doesn't justify federal welfare programs
6. The word "militia" in the second amendment has nothing to do with the National Guard
7. Social Security, as it is currently run, is a Ponzi Scheme
8. Whatever right to privacy exists in the constitution does not extend to allowing women to privately contract assassins to kill their unborn
9. There will never be a sufficient number of people willing to vote for a truly libertarian society. Opening the border will only make it less likely.
10. There are only two sexes. The vast majority of people have genders and sexual orientations that match their sex. Organizing society around the rare exceptions is a recipe for disaster.