A republic is a form of government where power resides in elected individuals representing the citizen body. Government leaders exercise power according to the people and rule of law.
The Declaration of Independence establishes a Republican Form of Government guaranteed to every State by the Constitution for the Republic for the United States of America (Article IV, Section 4).There is a very good reason that our Pledge of Allegiance refers to our country as a Republic and there is a very good reason that our Declaration of Independence and our constitution do not even mention the word "democracy.”
Democrats as far back as President Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi and of course, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have all been heard saying, "In a democracy…"
They also often quote Republicans Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin as if these great men represent the Democrat Party. Democrats obviously admire Republicans and our great Republican leadership.
You see, many people are under the false impression our form of government is a democracy. This is, of course, completely untrue. It's another hoax repeated by Democrats over the decades. The fact is that the United States of America is a Republic -- not a democracy.
Republics displaced absolute monarchy or aristocracy as the most common form of government in the 18th century.
Our Founders Rejected Democracy
Our Founders were extremely knowledgeable about the issue of democracy and feared a democracy as much as a monarchy.
They
understood that the only entity that can take away the people's freedom
is their own government, either by being too weak to protect them from
external threats or by becoming too powerful and taking over every
aspect of life.
They knew very well the meaning of the word
"democracy." and the history of democracies; and they were deliberately
doing everything in their power to prevent having a democracy.
In a Republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves. The people have no obligation to the government: Instead, the government is a servant of the people, and obliged to its owner, We the People.
Many politicians have lost sight of that fact.
It's
somewhat true that a Constitutional Republic has some similarities to
democracy in that it uses democratic processes to elect representatives
and pass new laws, etc.
== The critical difference lies in the
fact that a Constitutional Republic has a Constitution that limits the
powers of the government. ==
It also spells out how the
government is structured, creating checks on its power and balancing
power between the different branches.
The goal of a
Constitutional Republic was to avoid the dangerous extremes of tyranny.
What exists in America under the Democrats is a far cry from the
Constitutional Republic our forefathers brought forth.
A woman
excited to know what our Founders created for America asked, “Well,
Doctor, what do we have, a republic or a monarchy?” Benjamin Franklin
smartly replied, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
The way "We The People" keep it is to VOTE.