Democracy or Republic.

[mortensen]

Our Founding Fathers knew that the next step for a Democracy to take would be socialism.

Our Founding Fathers established America as a Constitutional Republic, a system where the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law and citizens elect representatives to government.

Democracy, by contrast, designates a system of government where the will of the majority rules, unrestricted by any law. The founders of the United States went to great measures to ensure that our new nation was not a democracy.

The Constitution was designed to preserve individual rights and to limit the power of the government to the protection of individual rights. The founders opposed unlimited majority rule, because they recognized that individual rights and liberty would be compromised by mob rule, that the will of the majority could be just as tyrannical as the will of a monarch. In short, they knew that just as monarchy did, so democracy would, lead to the infringement of individual rights.

'A Republic, if you can keep it.'

http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment

[m gardner]

Republic=Freedom

Democracy=Mob rule

When we try to establish democracies they usually fail. Just like this one is about to. The Constitution gave us stability because we were headed into anarchy and they knew it. Now we have moved away from Constitutional principles and are headed back into anarchy again.

Edited October 30, 2010 by m gardner

[Ravin R10 man]

Our Founding Fathers established America as a Constitutional Republic, a system where the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law and citizens elect representatives to government.

Correct you are! The Constitution was also formed right out of the Bible as the guide..of course the Libs threw that out long ago..and we wonder why this country has gone down hill??

History shows us God will not stand by a country that ignores his set of standards!

"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."

Patric Henry

For more qoute click link below;

http://www.dojgov.net/Liberty_Watch.htm

Edited October 30, 2010 by Mathews XT Man

[stevebeilgard]

i correct folks at every opportunity when they say we have a democract. bull. we have a representitive republic.

[m gardner]

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.

So basically what we are witnessing here in Arizona is treason by the government itself on a grand scale.

[Ravin R10 man]

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.

So basically what we are witnessing here in Arizona is treason by the government itself on a grand scale.

You would be correct in assuming so!