Why a Republic?
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- Updated Feb 23, 2011
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If "democracy"
resulted in the election of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or Hamas in
Lebanon, would that be a good thing? How about Al-Qaeda rising to power by the
will of the people in Yemen or Saudi Arabia?
If
the KKK had a majority vote in Indiana or Alabama in the 1950s, would a
democratic vote have made their ideas and agenda morally acceptable?
The
story is told that after the Constitutional Convention of 1787 Benjamin
Franklin was asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got…?" He responded, "A republic,
if you can keep it."
Now,
why did he say a republic and not a democracy?
John
Adams offered this: "Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy; such an
anarchy," he said, "that every man will do what is right in his own eyes… Remember,
democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There
never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide…"
You
see, a republican system of government understands that the only way to control
the selfishness of the masses is to know the laws of nature and nature's God and
to hold them as self-evident and as superior to man's opinions. James Wilson, signer
of the Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court Justice, said it best: "Human law
must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is
Divine." Alexander Hamilton agreed: "the law…dictated by God Himself is, of
course, superior in obligations to any other…No human laws are of any validity,
if contrary to this."
So
why a republic? Simply said, because the morality of the masses—of the Muslim
Brotherhood, of Hamas, the KKK, the DNC, and even the GOP—is a frightening
thing unless it is measured and checked by the Divine and the True.