[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Representative republican government should be abolished? And replaced with what?

"Representative republican government" is what we need, not what we have. Forget labels, look at the way our govt actually operates. Any government that for all intents and purposes recognizes no real limits on its power -- that's not a republican form of government.

[RRWCC]

"that's not a republican form of government"

Exactly, We now have what our founders feared most - a Democracy! - same as mob rule, limited only by opinion, force, and want.

[Huck]

Any government that for all intents and purposes recognizes no real limits on its power -- that's not a republican form of government.

I don't agree with this statement. Our government does recognize limits. The most striking example is straight from 1787: constitutional amendment. The people are sovereign.