Mercyhurst University professor and political science department chair Joseph Morris views a particular course as the most important he teaches. His Introduction to American Government class is an ...

Help us defend constitutional government and ordered liberty. ‘Arepublic, if you can keep it.” That was Benjamin Franklin’s famous response when he was leaving the Constitutional Convention, after he ...

It has recently come to my attention that there is some confusion over the type of government we have in the United States. I am not talking about our Commission Form of government in Saratoga Springs ...

A certain kind of American never tires of explaining that the country is a republic, not a democracy. Exactly what the distinction means can be obscure, but the drift is clear. “Democracy” is catching ...

A constitutional republic is a form of democracy. Last Saturday's "No Kings" protest spurred conversations, counter-protesting and misunderstandings. A video the Gazette posted of peaceful protestors ...

“The United States of America is a federal republic: a federation of states governed by written constitutions,” wrote Russell Kirk. The Constitution created a republican form of government. A ...

“It’s not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic.” More and more, this is the defensive response of Republicans as Democratic voters increasingly begin to question the political system in ways ...

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (Emphasis is mine.) We ...

OROVILLE — As a constitutional republic the city of Oroville will not enforce “any executive orders issued by the state of California or by the United States federal government that are overreaching ...

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