WHAT IS A REPUBLIC?

 by       

       M. Richard Maxson

      The word republic is from the Latin res,which means thing affair, or interest, and publica which means of everybody.  It literally means everybody's  thing or interest.  The Declaration of Independence contains the principle of republican government: that all men are created with equal, unalienable rights, that governments are formed by men to secure these rights, and that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. Upon these principles, our forefathers established a body of law called the Constitution of  the United States to which they added a Bill of Rights as the first ten amendments to further restrict majority rule. 

  
       The essence of a republic is the rule of law, by which is meant the common or scientific
 law, which is certain and unchangeable. This law is discovered, not made,in that the
 tendency is to find the freedoms and restraints imposed by natural law, and base decisions 
upon them ("Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them," wrote Tom Paine)
 Since human nature doesn't change, what was right yesterday should be so today and 
tomorrow. Courts seek out and enforce a higher law as opposed to political or man-made
 law. As a result, the law seeks truth, transcends politics, is reasonable, consistent,
 predictable, and reflects or approximates natural justice. Government acts like a shield 
punishing the abuses of freedoms - assaults against the life, liberty, and property of 
innocent people - not the freedoms themselves. For example, the misuse of a firearm which 
 results in injury to an innocent party would be punished rather than the mere possession 
of such a weapon. Officers of the law are appropriately called peace officers, for they do 
not enforce political law, but protect everyone equally from force and fraud The military is 
used as a last resort to protect the nation.  

        Moral authority rests outside the political class who are held to a high moral standard through public pressure. Government's purpose is to protect rights and defend freedom. Taxes are voluntary assessments used to fund legitimate government functions serving the common good (in obedience to John Adams’ dictum that "No man may be taxed against his will...").

      Under this form of government, individual freedom and responsibility are maximized. The individual is sovereign and his rights are sacrosanct. Individuals are free to act without permission, but must never impose without consent. Everyone has an equal right to compete in the marketplace, succeed or fail on their own, and pursue their own happiness restrained only by the rights of others to do the same. Republics reject as a danger to liberty the public interest doctrine espoused in democracies. In a republic, the government has just enough power to carry out its proper functions, but is otherwise limited, inhibited and restricted. 

      Power is decentralized, divided, and regulated by an elaborate system of checks and balances, with the ultimate check held by the people in the form of free and open elections (the ballot box), trial by jury(the jury box), and an armed citizenry (the cartridge box). The law is neutral. No one is exempt; everyone is equal before it. All are held fully accountable to an injured party.

       In a republic, government is an instrument solely for collective security in which the 
people are served rather than regulated, represented rather than ruled. When the
principles of republican government are followed, free markets spring up automatically
followed by a growing middle class, abundance, harmony, a high degree of liberty, and
ethical behavior. The emphasis is on the creation of wealth, not the accumulation of 
power as in a democracy.

      Thomas Paine had a premise that: Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary
evil: in its worst state. An intolerable one. How far we have come from our Republic, 
our Founders ideals. Now, labeled an autocracy by the rest of the non-western world, 
we see this regime violating the constitution daily. We see the FBI weaponized and used
as the Stasi was in Communist East Germany. Retired members of the FBI, with decades
of experience, are shocked at what they are seeing in what was a country of laws. 
It is a sad time in the history of the states that were united. The wretched road from
republic to corporate socialist state continues.

WHAT IS A DEMOCRACY?

 by

       M. Richard Maxson 

      The origin of the word democracy comes from the Greek demos, meaning people, 

and kratos, meaning government. Literally, democracy means government by or of 

the people. In a democracy, the majority rules either directly, or through elected 

representatives or appointed officials, without the restraint embodied in a fixed body 

of law. The law is whatever an official organ of government determines it is. It is rule

by whim rather than law, by emotion rather than reason. Individuals have no inherent

rights, but are considered the products of history, culture, class, gender, race, religion,

etc., and are classified and categorized accordingly. The laws are political or man-made,

and reflect not truth and justice, but power. The daily constitutional violations that are 

occurring daily from the ruling elite are examples of not truth but power.

      Rights only emanate from that power. The purpose of government is to satisfy needs 

not wants or privileges of the average citizen. It is government by bias with the result 

that members of politically powerful constituencies receive the needs, wants, and 

privileges because of their classification within certain categories rather than on merit

at the expense of everyone else. Eventually, this creates a two class society with very 

little room to advance. 

     Democracy concentrates power into the hands of the few organized and clever enough 

to manipulate the masses. It is characterized by a communistic attitude toward property

and  monopolistic enterprises. Government then becomes an instrument for the 

redistribution of wealth as well as the security of the state. It is the rule of men, the 

dictatorship of the majority without regard to the consequences upon individuals or society.

It is what is happening in this country now. 

      In a democracy the nation slowly evolves into a two class society. Taken to it’s extreme 

is Communism but there is a long road before that. These forms of government have always

failed, just slowly. To see that this form of government is eventually doomed to fail is to

look at where it has already been implemented in this country before. California now has 

the highest poverty rate in the nation, and is home to one-third of the nation’s welfare 

recipients and the greatest number of rich people of any state in the country. The state's

public schools remain among the nation's poorest. California’s coastal and political elites 

make laws and set rules for others but exempt themselves. They celebrate rampant

 lawlessness from illegal aliens, which they see as future progressive voters to continue 

their vision of utopia. 

      Citizens need to stop listening to the lies. Since 2008, the number of people who call

themselves middle class has plunged from 53% to 40%, according to survey by the  Pew

Research Center. That figure is dropping due to the massive inflation deliberately caused

by this regime. They are imposing their form of democracy – Corporate Socialism. Until

then they will continue to use the constitution as a prop waving around saying that 

anyone who disagrees is “a threat to our democracy.”

Patriots will agree that THIS democracy needs a threat.

We Were, Not a Democracy

by

       M. Richard Maxson

 

      Although we hear the term democracy used constantly in reference to our form 

of government, the word does not appear in either the Declaration of Independence 

or the Constitution of the United States, our two fundamental documents. Indeed,

Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution "guarantees to every State in this union a 

Republican Form of Government.’ In addition, we sing the Battle Hymn of the 

Republic, and pledge allegiance to the flag of “the Republic for which it stands.” 

      On the contrary, the founders saw great danger in democracy. Tom Paine, 

considered democracy the vilest form of government. In describing the

purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Virginia delegate Edmund Randolph 

commented: “The general object was to provide a cure for the evils under which the 

United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin, every man had found it

 in the turbulence and follies of democracy.” 

     Thirty-eight years after the Declaration of Independence, John Adams stated:

 “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. 

There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.” 

     John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to I835 observed: 

“Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between

 order and chaos.” 

      As late as 1928, the "Citizenship" chapter of U.S. War Department training manual

 TM 2000-25 expressed the opinion: Democracy . . . has been repeatedly tried without 

success. Our Constitutional fathers. . . made a very marked distinction between a

 republic and a democracy . . . and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had 

 founded a republic. 

     One of America's outstanding historians, Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948), put it 

succinctly: “At no time, at no place in solemn convention assembled through no chosen

agents, had the American people ofiicially proclaimed the United States to be a democracy.

The Constitution did not contain the word or any word lending countenance to it.” 

Why, then, are the Socialist Democrats call us a democracy? 

It is because, that is what they want.