Democratic Republic is a made up Oxymoron term from the Cultural Marxism indoctrination in public schools - its opposites. A democracy differs significantly from a republic in the fact all Democracies do not protect the rights of the minorities in them
One is about protecting rights of everybody the other is a mindless mob that can enslave the 49% at whim.
“It had been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience had 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.”
Alexander Hamilton June 21, 1788
“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli -1850
“The adoption of Democracy as a form of Government by all European nations is fatal to good Government, to liberty, to law and order, to respect for authority, and to religion, and must eventually produce a state of chaos from which a new world tyranny will arise.”
Duke of Northumberland 1931
“I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Agnes Repplier
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C.S. Lewis
A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H.L. Mencken
Enshrined in Art 4 US Constitution:
SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
“SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; “
How many of the border states have submitted petitions to Congress or the President requesting protection from invasion? If any have, and were denied, how many sued in federal court demanding the Legislature and Executive branches fulfill their obligations?
The reason I say our country encompasses elements of both is because at the local level pure democracy often exists as in when town councils post a referendum for the people to vote on. The majority will have their way and although every voter decision is subject to a judicial review if challenged, that is the case in a Constitutional as well as a Democratic Republic and even in a Democracy.
We have seen in other countries how the people have voted for something only to see a Judge overturn their vote because he feels differently
I get what you say about the Marxism but in reality what they espouse never has happened in the west to my knowledge.
I still maintain our government incorporates elements of both a Democratic and Constitutional Republic and there are other who agree. It is merely an opinion and we can agree to disagree.
bkmk