What Are We?

So What Are We? A Democracy?

A Democratic Dictatorship?

Or A Constitutional Republic?

The United States is a Constitutional Republic.

In a Constitutional Republic - the rights of the individual are protected by a Constitution, which enumerates agreed limits, placed upon the Federal Government itself and upon the majority, which hinders and impedes them from violating the rights and property of each individual.

We are not a simple Democracy. A Democracy, allows the majority, if they want to come take away your house or your car. to do so, all they have to do is vote away your individual rights and government can seize them at gunpoint. Remember Communism (International Socialism), NAZI (National Socialism), Fascism (Italian Socialism), and our own Democratic U.S. Socialism at WACO Texas, the Ted Bundy ranch fiasco, and other places.

It's important to understand this process, because it is clear that a plurality of Americans, Republicans (who should know better) and Democrats (who historically reject individual responsibility for the security of a Socialist state) both appear determined to elect politicians who neither understand nor respect the rule of Constitutional law, nor Freedom and the Liberty it protects.

Our liberty and freedom are not under threat from an outside force invading our shores,  but rather from an abysmal lack of familiarity with it's most basic precepts, by a growing population from within the nation itself, who would gladly vote it away, as a consequence of some human rights demand or some perceived form of anger, which excites entitlement demand.

As Justice Antonin Scalia once noted: (Paraphrasing) Rights and Freedoms are not material things, i.e.  "services", or "income subsidies" that government takes from your fellow tax payers and gives to you. Rather they are areas of your life and daily activities over which government has no authority or jurisdiction. It's critical that we as Americans understand the distinction, and profoundly sad to see how many people fail to do so.  "For lack of knowledge, the people perish".

And there are wolves aplenty, waiting at the door, who smell that liberty hemorrhaging away; as we elect, leaders who would eviscerate the rights and freedoms enumerated in our Constitution.

 

Our 1^st and 2^nd Amendments are now, constantly under attack.  If our liberty dies, it will not be at the hands of a foreign invader - it will be because “We the People” vote its death upon ourselves.

Therefore Awake, Arise, Remain Alert and willing to Defend the  Blessings, with which we have been endowed,  Our, Founding Father’s Freedoms, all clearly enshrined within the Constitution, and Ratified by our Union.