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What is a Republic?

Declaration of Independence

by John Trumbull

"Today the path to total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people....outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded and is sure that it is the winning side.... All the strange developments in the foreign policy agreements may be traced to this group who are going to make us over to suit their pleasure.... This political action group has its own local political support organizations, its own pressure groups, its own vested interests, its foothold within our government, and its own propaganda apparatus."

Senator William Jenner (1954)

DEFINITION and explanation: What is a Republic?

Look up the word REPUBLIC in most any dictionary. Most likely, you"ll find that a "republic" is a "government of elected representatives".

This is a deliberate deception.

I have an Enclycopaedia Britannica, 11th edition. This work provides the proper explanation. First it says that the idea that a republic is a government of elected representatives is a "notoriously modern interpretation". The article continues, explaining that historically, a Republic refered to a government in which the soverign held authority granted by the people and ruled according to law.

Note that this concept checks exactly with our own Declaration of Independence which states that the purpose of government is to protect the rights of the people, and that government derives its just powers from the consent of the people.

You now have the key ideas in hand: First, power is derived from the people, and second the government itself operates within and under the control of the law. In other words: In a REPUBLIC the People are the Masters and the government is subordinate.

When the Founding Fathers set our Constitution for us they based their work on this concept. The Constitution is a grant of authority from We the People to form a government. The government thus authorized is a LIMITED government, operating on authority granted from We the People. In every sense it meets the earlier, historical definition of a Republic.

The Constitution is the grant of authority for the government. The Constitution, then, is the Law of the People for the control of the Government.

You will hear many people say that we are a "democracy". Such was NOT the original intention. In a democracy, the will of the majority is law. Anything is allowed, provided that the majority approves. There are no checks and balances, and the rights of the individual are not protected.

Allow me two quotations on the subject:

James Madison, Federalist Paper 10:

"Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

U.S. Army Training Manual TM2000-05, 1928

Democracy, n. "A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic - negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy."

Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They made a very marked distinction between a republic and democracy ... and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had created a republic.

Seek the Truth, and the Truth will make you free!

©Pastor Mike Acker

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Informant: Milo

(excerpt)

After email conversation with Mitofsky, and studying the slides which Mitofsky presented at the October American Statistical Association Fall Conference, and re-reading and noticing how difficult our "History.." was to understand, I've rewritten it slightly.

A very critically important task that each and every one of you can do to help restore democratic elections, is to educate all our politicians and candidates not to concede elections ever -- until after obtaining and analyzing their own detailed vote count data to detect possible vote miscounts.

This "History..." is perfect to pass on to politicians, press, and others by sending them links to it, and printing copies and mailing or taking them a copy.

http://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Presidential-Election-2004.pdf

(This history makes clear that presidential elections are not the only races being miscounted.)

I also highly recommend Mark Crispin Miller's latest book, "Fooled Again" which is available in book stores.

Here are links to contact your officials:

US Senate
http://senate.gov/

US House
http://house.gov/

State Legislatures
http://www.ncsl.org/public/leglinks.cfm

State Election Officials http://electionarchive.net/public/ucv_select_info.php

Even City Officials may be interested and definately hit up all candidates.

Thank you for your patriotism.

Time table:

In December NEDA will finish and release its Ohio exit poll analysis. If the national election data archive were fully funded, these types of analyses could be automated with statistical programming.

In January, I will focus on completing phase I of the public national election data document archive and asking foundations for funds to hire fulltime programming staff. Any help with that fundraising task beginning in January will be appreciated. Please remind me again if you've previously told me that you could help with fundraising or PR because I'm forgetful.

Thank you very much everyone. I hope that we can convince more people to join us in fighting to restore American democracy because every other issue depends on it.

Warm Regards,

Kathy Dopp
http://electionarchive.org

Shocked, Shocked
Eric Margolis on bribed reporters and political kabuki in Iraq.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis7.html

"Opting-out" is not enough, says Debbie Clark.
http://lewrockwell.com/orig6/dclark1.html

The senior Democrat on the Senate committee investigating former lobbyist Jack Abramoff announced this week that he will return $67,000 in donations from Indian tribes represented by the indicted Republican.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121405O.shtml

Tony Blair and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw were under pressure last night to refute claims that Britain has been complicit in the alleged use of CIA planes taking suspected terrorists to secret camps for torture.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121405N.shtml

The Pentagon is in the early stages of drafting a wartime request for up to $100 billion more for Iraq and Afghanistan, lawmakers say, a figure that would push spending related to the wars toward a staggering half-trillion dollars.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121405M.shtml