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Guaranteed a Republican form of Goverment

Dear Fellow Americans - The United States is NOT a Democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic.
Ill keep this as simple/short as possible:
Michael Badnarik (Libertarian) explains it best: In a democracy the "majority rules" - and the minority
loses. A hypothetical example can demonstrate the idea. Pretend that you're a land owner, and that I
would like to buy some of your property. You don't want to sell this property because it's been in your
family for several generations. In a democracy, I could gather a dozen other land owners together,
proposing that we divide your land between us. We will allow you to vote on the proposition, because
this IS a democracy after all -- and you will lose thirteen to one. That's a democracy!
In a Republic, nothing can outvote your individual rights! They are unalienable. If the land belongs to
you it doesn't matter if I have a hundred friends, a thousand friends, or a hundred thousand friends!
YOUR PROPERTY IS YOUR PROPERTY! It is the government's fiduciary responsibility to protect
your rights. If you are in doubt, read your copy of the Declaration of Independence. Right after "...life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness" it says, "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted
among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed".
Constitution for the United States of America, Article IV Section. 4. The United States shall guarantee
to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government. The United States was founded upon
the principles of a Constitutional Republic.
Now further
A Constitutional Republic has some similarities to democracy in that it uses democratic processes to
elect representatives and pass new laws, etc. The critical difference lies in the fact that a Constitutional
Republic has a Constitution that limits the powers of the government. It also spells out how the
government is structured, creating checks on its power and balancing power between the different
branches.
The goal of a Constitutional Republic was to avoid the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or
mobocracy.
For the last few days you have been witnessing mobocracy in the streets across America. Sadly, this
mob rule has been endorsed by the current administration themselves and many politicians.
The power has been abused for the last 10 + years and especially in recent years and the US has been
getting away from the principles we were founded on. Do you wonder why people live in fear under
other types of power? If we don't like something we follow the law of the land and change as guided by
our Constitution - we don't ignore it as it has been especially done the last 8 years.
My public service for today
Me

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