Founding Documents.2Many people do not realize that America is not a Democracy that America is in fact a Republic. So what is the difference you may be thinking to yourself? There is a huge difference. A Democracy although elected by the people, is ruled by the majority. Not unlike the government we see today in England. For example, when Tony Blair was Prime Minister; Labor was the majority, and their voice was the loudest. Another way to explain it, which may be clearer, is that a Republic is a representative form of government ruled by law, in our case the Constitution and a democracy is direct government ruled by the majority or mob rule. A Republic recognizes our individual unalienable Rights, while democracies are only concerned with group wants and/or needs (the public good). Sound familiar? A democracy is more concerned with “social justice,” the needs and desires of the many and less concerned with the needs or unalienable rights of the individual. So what do I mean by unalienable rights? What is an unalienable right?
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