When an issue is to be decided, the entire population votes on it the majority wins and rules. A very old, very tired, and very wise Benjamin Franklin replied ∺ Republic, maam if you can keep it. (Websters dictionary definition: 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.)ĭemocracy: Operates by direct majority vote of the people. Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands Īs Benjamin Franklin was leaving the building where, after four months of hard work, the Constitution had been completed and signed, a lady asked him what kind of government the convention had created. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government. Posted on 2:38:35 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
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