“Repeat after me-—the United States is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. The Founders, to a man, loathed and feared democracy. “
We were, sigh. Now we’re a banana republic thanks to those that call themselves democrats.
Lawmaking is the central feature of government. In republics, lawmaking is the responsibility of representatives of the component members of society. Notwithstanding our beloved Constitution, I shake my head in disbelief when I occasionally read at conservative websites that modern America is a republic; it is little more a republic than Imperial Rome circa 300 AD was a republic just because emperors kept up the charade of republican institutions. Then, as now, what passes for republican government better resembles scenes of power-mad factions going at each other’s throats, rather than constituent members joined in common purpose to advance the best interests of the nation.