Republic

November 2, 2024

WILLIAMS: Democracy and tyranny

January 29, 2020 Walter Williams

During President Donald J. Trump’s impeachment trial, we’ll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we’ve become a democracy, it would […]

Opinion

HILL: The Propositional Republic of America

January 30, 2019 Frank Hill

At the end of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, Mrs. Powel asked Ben Franklin: “Well, Doctor Franklin, what do we have, a monarchy or a republic?” To which he replied: “A republic, if […]