JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
hundred knew meant people remembered
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
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Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
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In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
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The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
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We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives.
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The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.
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In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.
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In summary, the Romans were opposed to tyranny in any form; and the feature of government to which they gave the most thought was an elaborate system of checks and balances.
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For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige.
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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
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In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
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In our Constitution governmental power is divided among three separate branches of the national government, three separate branches of State governments, and the peoples of the several States.
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We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become entirely too much a government of and for one class, which is exactly what our Founding Fathers wanted most to prevent.
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The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed.