We live under rule of law
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Editor,
Republic – a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition). A definition of Democracy makes no distinction about governing according to law.
Ignorant – destitute of knowledge or education.
If you ask yourself what the word republic means and cannot come up with a clear notion of what it means, it simply means that you have never taken the time to learn what it means.
Pure democracy is rule by majority. Which means that if 51 percent of the people in your neighborhood vote that you are a lousy parent and want to take your child from you they, can do that by voting as a majority. Don’t like the color your neighbor paints his house? Then get 51 percent of the neighbors to vote to make him change the color and, voila, the majority rules.
The difference between a democratic republic and a democracy is that in a democratic republic there is rule of law. One cannot get what one wants simply by getting a majority to vote his way … there are laws by which we must abide.
Our founders were astute observers and readers of history and understood that pure democracies always lead to tyranny over the few by the majority, thus a democratic republic.
Our “democracy” is flawed. That’s because we do not have a democracy, we have a democratic republic; we have rule of law.
David Koger
Ronan
