The Real Issue in 2012: Is America a Democracy or a Republic?

by Dr. Robert D. Crane

    Our foreign policy wonks have tried to brainwash the entire world to sell democracy and make sure that no-one knows America is a republic.  The result has been abject failure, because “democracy” generally has referred in practice to support for the favorite tyrants that America supports.  The “Arab Spring” may become increasingly problematic in some countries, and American support for it doubly so.

    A recent study presented at the Qatar Foundation on the hundreds of different signs carried or posted by the people battling the Baathist regime in Syria show strikingly that they speak only about justice.  Not a single sign even mentions the word democracy.

    I’ve never met anyone in all my travels around the world outside America who knows or has ever heard the difference between the secularist “community organizers” who rule the mob from the top down and rule by the people who are ruled by God.  Also, if a poll were taken, I would estimate that not one American in ten could explain what motivated America’s Founders during the revolution.  Unfortunately, as we got power, those who wanted more power, led by the Hamiltonian Federalists, set up a central bank to concentrate ownership of productive capital as the key to political power, thereby proceeding to create what Jefferson and the other Founders had revolted against.

  At the Constitutional convention in 1789 in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked, “What have you created?”  He answered, “A republic, if we can keep it”.  Perhaps he was thinking of President Barack Obama.

  Who knows this history?  One certainly will never hear a word about it in American public schools.  Even the library of books for sale at Montecello, selected by the University of Virgina, offers only those books that insisted Jefferson was a secularist and opposed religious values in public life.  There was not a word about his founding premise embodied in his statement, “A people can remain free only if they are properly educated.  Proper education consists in learning virtue.  And no people can remain virtuous unless both the personal and public lives of the individual are infused with awareness and love of Divine Providence”, which was the term used back then for God.

    In his famous Cairo speech three years ago, President Obama emphasized the word justice seven times, against the strong advice of his mentors.  Since then he has not once even mentioned this radioactive term.

    Our constitutional lawyer president should be asked in public debate to explain the difference between a republic and a democracy, namely, between principle and power.  If he fudges, he should be impeached, and his alma mater, Harvard Law School, should be recognized as an ultimate source of the secularist, positivist paradigm that ignores the call in the Preamble of America’s Declaration of Independence for justice as the key to peace, prosperity, and freedom.

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What is the difference between a republic and a democracy? http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_a_republic_and_a_democracy