Rome was one such experiment in freedom, which fell after a few hundred years. It was… Once a Republic which evolved into a Democracy that allowed for an Oligarchy and then Fell… Can you name a more current example?…
Are we a Democracy or a Republic?
“A Republic, Mam, if you can keep it” …Benjamin Franklin
If we in the United States of America started as a Republic… WHERE ARE WE NOW?
Check out this definition of a “Word” I found at Merriam-Webster.com …
fascism – Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Pronunciation: \?fa-?shi-z?m also ?fa-?si-\
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date: 19211) often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2) a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
fascism – Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
You decide for yourself where we are right now…
Here is some more interesting information that comes from our founding fathers… You may have seen it… It comes from a document known as
“The Declaration of Independence“…
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
NARA | The National Archives Experience.
A great video on the subject from “The John Birch Society” (JBS.org)…
“…A REPUBLIC MAM, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT.” …Benjamin Franklin
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