When the Founders created the United States of America, they wanted to form a representative democracy to protect the new nation from becoming an autocracy or theocracy. In the beginning, only white ...

You can be sure that whatever comes next from the people trying to convince you our nation is not a democracy, it won't be ...

We Americans live in a representative democracy. That’s a fundamental feature of public life in the United States, a part of who we are as a people. We elect leaders to make decisions on our behalf.

I write to challenge a Letter to the Editor claiming our founders used the terms republic and democracy interchangeably. Quite the contrary. The authors of the Constitution did not equate ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when, as if on cue, the elected ...

Officially, our form of government in the U.S. is a representative democracy. This means citizens vote for their government officials. But Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is of a different opinion. “Of ...

In recent years, Republicans at all levels have emphasized that our form of government is a republic, not a democracy. This is done, not really to educate, but as an advertising ploy: to keep some ...

When politicians state,”We are not a democracy, we are a republic,” it makes me think that they are either uneducated on the subject or are just trying to confuse and scare people. They are correct in ...

Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...

237 years ago, four men — Washington, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay rescued America from chaos (“The Quartet” by Joseph Ellis). These four and six years of frustration, exasperation and compromise pulled ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Imagine that we've all -- all of us, all of society -- landed on some alien planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don't have any legacy systems from the United ...