The Founding of a Republic (2024)

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What did Benjamin Franklin mean by a republic if you can keep it? ›

His answer was: "A republic, if you can keep it." The brevity of that response should not cause us to under-value its essential meaning: democratic republics are not merely founded upon the consent of the people, they are also absolutely dependent upon the active and informed involvement of the people for their ...

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United States Constitution

The Founding Fathers wanted republicanism because its principles guaranteed liberty, with opposing, limited powers offsetting one another.

The term developed its modern meaning in reference to the constitution of the ancient Roman Republic, lasting from the overthrow of the kings in 509 BC to the establishment of the Empire in 27 BC.

“Well done is better than well said.”

The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.

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“Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes,” Franklin said.

Beginning with “We the People,” the US Constitution was designed to create a new government of, for, and by the people in the United States, an elected representative democracy that would check and balance its power and serve and protect the people.

republic, form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body. Modern republics are founded on the idea that sovereignty rests with the people, though who is included and excluded from the category of the people has varied across history.

How are Democrats and Republicans different? ›

The Democratic Party typically supports a larger government role in economic issues, backing regulations and social welfare programs. The Republicans, however, typically want a smaller government that is less involved in the economy.

A democratic republic is a political system where the citizens of a state elect deputies or representatives to the legislature of the state in order to govern on their behalf. The opposite of such a system would be an autocracy (monarchy or civilian/military dictatorship) or oligarchy (aristocracy or plutocracy).

The United States, Mexico, India, France, Kenya, South Korea, Peru, and Indonesia are only a few of the world's many true republics. Some countries call themselves republics simply because a monarch (a king or a queen) is not the leader. They are not always democracies.

By definition, a republic is a representative form of government that is ruled according to a charter, or constitution, and a democracy is a government that is ruled according to the will of the majority. Although these forms of government are often confused, they are quite different.

The State of Franklin (also the Free Republic of Franklin, Lost State of Franklin, or the State of Frankland) was an unrecognized proposed state located in present-day East Tennessee, in the United States.

But the key–and the essential foundation–of a republic must be a common commitment among the citizenry to the principles of religion and morality. The Founders acknowledged the self-evident truths that all men are created equal, and that God gives all men the same inalienable rights.

Some of these rights are freedom of expression, of religion, of speech, and the right to bear arms. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights give many of these rights to all people living in the United States. All people living in the United States must obey laws, including local, state, and federal ones.