There is a great deal of reference by the media and sadly, even by many of our elected officials to “our democracy” or “this democracy” when referring to our government. The Founding Fathers of our nation wisely established a Republic, not a Democracy, and there are many important differences. The differences can be debated and argued in many ways but the best and simplest definition I have found to date are the definitions printed in The Soldiers Training Manual issued by the United States War Department, November 30, 1928. These definitions were published by the authority of the United States Government and must be accepted as authentic in any court of proper jurisdiction. These precise and scholarly definitions of a Democracy and a Republic were carefully considered as a proper guide for U.S. soldiers and U.S. citizens by the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Such definitions take precedence over any ‘definition’ that may be found in the present commercial dictionaries which have suffered periodical ‘modification’ to please ‘the powers in office’.

The definition for DEMOCRACY is found in TM2000-25: Section 118-120.

The definition for REPUBLIC is found in TM 2000-25: Section 120-121.

Shortly after the ‘bank holiday’ in the 1930’s, hush-hush orders from the White House suddenly demanded that all copies of this book [Ed. Note: Training Manual 2000-25] be withdrawn from the Government Printing Office and the Army posts, to be suppressed and destroyed without explanation. Sadly, on the orders of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) administration, this outstanding Training Manual was “withdrawn” and destroyed. Question: Why did the FDR administration destroy this outstanding training manual?)

HERE ARE SOME RELEVANT QUOTES:

“Every step...towards...democracy is an advance towards destruction...Liberty has never yet lasted long in a democracy; nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.” (1801)

Fisher Ames (1758-1808; Congressman from Massachusetts)

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“Our Republic was never created to be a leveler of men. It was created to be a lifter, a developer of men.

Our Republic was created to let the gifted, the energetic, and the creative rise to new heights of achievement, and to let each man find his own level on the stairway of existence.

Our Republic was created to encourage men to meet their personal responsibilities and to shirk no public duties. That is why our people have always been concerned about the honest needs of their fellow citizens, the chief of these needs being liberty, justice, and opportunity.

Our Republic demands that the nation be governed by the capable, the honorable, the far-seeing, the clear-seeing, and not by mediocre men. In the beginning it was so. May it be so again!

Our Republic demands more from men than any other system in the realm of self-discipline, dependability, cooperativeness, industry, thrift, and honor. For anyone to foster class consciousness, class conflict, misrepresentation, covetousness, violence, theft, and an open defiance of established law – even when done ‘legally’ – is to breed anarchy and tyranny.

Our Republic was not designed to interfere with the unalienable right of its people to be masters of their own destinies.

Our Republic was established to make men free!”

(Author unknown)

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(1) When “liberal” politicians (i.e., “socialists”) took over the reigns of power within the U.S. Government back in the 1930s, they decided that truthful, patriotic documents (such as Training Manual 2000-25) “had to go”.

(2) Our founding fathers gave us a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC – a form of government that was to be strictly limited by the “chains” of the U.S. Constitution (and its “Bill of Rights”). No matter what the “social-change agents” say or write, it does not alter the fact that the United States was founded as a REPUBLIC, and not as a democracy!

Ed. Note: The previous two sets of “author unknown” quotations were taken from a sheet prepared by “The Network of Patriotic Letter Writers”.

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