The United States has survived for almost 250 years because of the differences between democracy and a federal republic ...

Suppose that you’re walking down the street and you come to an intersection. There is a man standing there with his dog. You sidle up next to him and say, “Hey, nice dog!” Now suppose that the man ...

Commitment to democracy under the structure of a republic creates rights and duties for elected representatives. Some are not ...

For at least two reasons. One is the fact that a republic is a subset of democracy, which renders the argument wrong both factually and logically. Further, most people who make that argument cite ...

America’s Founding Fathers didn’t envision the U.S. as a bureaucracy or a democracy. They envisioned it as a republic—defined by James Madison as “a government which derives all its powers ...

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

Participants in a Pennsylvania focus group shared concerns about how polarized political parties and social media giants are pushing the country in a dangerous direction.