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What is Democracy? What is a Republic? How do they differ?

DEMOCRACY says that THE PEOPLE are the SOVEREIGN of a Country.

EACH individual member of THE PEOPLE shares in this Sovereignty. THIS is what makes us a FREE PEOPLE !

A REPUBLIC is where GOVERNMENT of a Country (a Land) is divided into three separate divisions. Ours is a Republican FORM of government.

History (human experience) has shown the  Democracy / Sovereignty of the People (a Nation) can only be preserved on their Country (the Land they live on) through a REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT.

Our Constitution created, and guarantees, a Republican FORM of government.

But our System is based on the Democratic Premise that WE THE PEOPLE are the Sovereign, and government is our Servant.

The Republican FORM is intended to PRESERVE our Sovereignty when under attack by those serving in our government by election, appointment, or hired into employment therein.

BEWARE of Demagogs who imply that a Republic and a Democracy are opposites or mutually exclusive. To the contrary, one is needed to preserve the other. Without both the result is a Monarchy, a Dictatorship, where the People are deprived of Sovereignty and become slaves - de jure if not de facto slaves.

Preserving Democracy requires a DIVISION of government with a JUDICIAL division that is INDEPENDENT of the other two divisions of government. This division is known as a Republican FORM of Government, and this FORM was established by our Constitution (US) and is guaranteed by the Constitution to be the FORM of government in every State - See Article IV, US Constitution.

BEWARE - There are those HIDING under the cover of positions of Public Trust, who want to deprive us of our Sovereignty. They believe their position of Public Trust is a Title of Nobility, a title that places them above our Laws. Titles of Nobility are prohibited in our Federal Government, in our State government, and subunits thereof, by the FIRST Article of Our Constitution for our United States, See Sections 9 & 10 of Article I.

The DUTY of the Judiciary is to secure LIBERTY to individuals, Human Persons, when the Executive or Legislative division attempt to deprive ANY Individual of LIBERTY. Far too often, our Judicial Officials pander to the Executive, or Legislative, in dereliction of their duty to bind the other Divisions of our government to the Law. They fail to HONOR the Sovereignty of the Individual.

For an understanding of Sovereignty, as intended by our Law Givers (the Founders) read the opinions of our First Supreme Court Justices in Chisolm v. Georgia, 1793. Written at a time when the meaning of the American Revolution was still fresh in the memories of those serving in our Judicial Division.

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