Founding Fathers
The Danger of Democracy
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008“Statues of Liberty” — oil painting by Beth Haynes
The United States is not a democracy, nor was it ever intended to be.
The United States is, as Benjamin Franklin put it, a Constitutional Republic.
The word “democracy” does not appear one time in either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence – and for very good reasons:
Democracy [...]
Godless Constitution
Monday, October 6th, 2008There is, among rightwingers predominantly, though not exclusively, a rather persistent misconception that the United States is at its roots a religious nation.
This is demonstrably false, and rather easy to verify, as we shall see in a moment; but first, let us note that this subject is significant not because of any particular issue [...]