JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
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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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For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
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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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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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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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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 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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In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
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Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
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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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The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
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All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
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For in the first place the American people could not have been swept too fast and too far in this movement without enough alarms being sounded to be heard and heeded.