America’s Founding Fathers didn’t envision the U.S. as a bureaucracy or a democracy. They envisioned it as a republic—defined by James Madison as “a government which derives all its powers ...

Founding Father James Madison may have best described the difference between a democracy and a republic: “(The difference) is that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person ...

One is the fact that a republic ... of democracy, which renders the argument wrong both factually and logically. Further, most people who make that argument cite (usually unspecified) “Founding ...

In recent years, a growing debate has emerged regarding whether our country was founded as a republic or a democracy. When asked about the form of government our Founding Fathers envisioned for ...

America’s Founding Fathers didn’t envision the U.S. as a bureaucracy or a democracy. They envisioned it as a republic—defined by James Madison as “a government which derives all its powers ...

Some refer to our government as a democracy. They aren’t wrong. The founding fathers preferred the term republic, however, because democracy was the term used to describe what we now would call a ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills got the obvious out of the way when asked about what America's founding ... Democracy," explained that Jefferson believed the American republic's future ...

The United States is not a democracy ... the United States is a federal republic. And what does the “federal” part of the definition mean? The Founding Fathers decided to push many of the ...

Debates that pit our nation's status as democracy or constitutional republic tend to intensify ... said the nation's Founding Fathers implemented a republican-style system in part as a safeguard ...