Can we keep the Republic?

As my first post I have chosen the subject “Can we keep the Republic”. The vast majority of America’s problems is centered within the framework of this question.

Daily we read, see and hear the politicians, pundits and everyday citizens referring to the deep philosophical divide within our society and the inability of the Federal government, particularly congress, to provide solutions for what ails us. These “opinions” are generally offered within the framework that it is our government’s responsibility and duty to “fix”, i.e. control, every aspect of every citizen’s life. 

There is an oft used phrase, “America is a Republic”, that is being ignored in our political arena. What is not understood by most of the general population and is PURPOSEFULLY being ignored by the media and our elected officials (not to mention our educational institutions) is the difference between a “Democracy” and a “Republic”.

This is not a complicated issue. In a nutshell: a Democracy provides for the electorate to determine what and how the government does for and to its populace. Most European countries are Social Democracies. A Republic provides for the electorate to choose who will guide the nation in the government’s implementation of the CONSTITUTION, which dictates what and how the government may do for and to is populace. America is a Republic in spite of the liberal progressive efforts to ignore it.

We have allowed ourselves to become hostages to the adjectives “liberal” and “conservative” involving all things fiscal, social and cultural. If we are to survive as a Republic we must insist on educating our youth as to the differences and moving the political debate back to the idea that our Founders chose a Republic form of government for its intrinsic value of preventing a “majority” from dictating the treatment of the minority by allowing the populace to install the leadership that would, as required by law, follow the principals declared in our Declaration of Independence and codified in our Constitution.

In our Republic, the Constitution rules; those that want America to become a Democracy need the populace to accept the principal that “the majority rules”. A simple majority can elect Presidents, Congressmen and Senators; it requires much more than a simple majority to amend the Constitution. It is, however, this principal that has brought us to the question of survival of our Republic. A simple majority can and is now at the precipice of electing politicians that create a majority of the United States Supreme Court that by decree can overturn and make null and void the basic fundamentals of how the Constitution mandates we are to be governed.

This, my friends, is how the progressive liberals are transforming this Republic into a Social Democracy. Is this what Mr. Obama was contemplating when he stated his intention to “Transform America”?