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Video explains the various types of government and the difference between a Republic and Democracy.

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when does Ben Franklin exited the Constitutional Convention he was asked by sir what have you given us his immediate response was a republic man if you can keep it yet most Americans today have been play that our nation's governmental system is a democracy not a republic the difference between these two is essential in understanding americanism and the American cyst before we discuss political systems however it's helpful to address the confusion that has been spread about the political Spectrum many of Midland believe that the political Spectrum places groups such as communist on the far-left fascists or dictators on the far-right and political moderates or Centrist in the middle however a more accurate political Spectrum will show government having zero power on the far right to having 100% power on the far left extreme right there is no government the extreme left features total government under such labels as communism socialism Nazism fascism uses potentates dictators Kings any form of total government those who claim that Nazis and fascists are right-wing never defined their terms this two spreading confusion toward the middle of the political Spectrum can be found the type of government limited to its proper role of protecting the rights of the people I swear the Constitution of the United States is those who Advocate such a form of government are really constitutional moderates so let's analyze the basic Palms of government they are Monica or dictatorship ruled by one oligarchy rule by a few democracy rule by majority Republic by law and a turkey which is ruled by no one  in discussing these five will see that they can be narrowed down to even fewer looking first monarchy or dictatorship this form of government doesn't really exist in the practical sense it's always a group that puts one of its members up front sing has his Council of nobles or Earl's and every dictator has his bureaucrats or commissars the Men Behind the Scenes this isn't rule by one even though one person maybe what is a bleeder it's ruled by a group so let's eliminate monarchy dictatorship because it never truly exists oligarchy which is by a group is the most common form of government in all history and it is the most common form of government today most of the nations of the world are ruled by awful few and therefore oligarchy remains at the other end we find anarchy which means without government some people have looked over history founded many of its worst crimes were committed by governments so they decided that having no government might be a good idea but this is a mistake does the ancient Greeks stated without law they can be no freedom  our founding fathers agreed and held that some amount of government is a necessary resource in any civilized order we Society in a state of Anarchy however everyone has to guard life liberty and property and the lives of family members everyone must be armed and movement is severely restricted because once property has to be protected at all times civilized people I've always hired someone to do the guarding a sheriff a police force or some branch of government once law enforcement wasn't placed the people afraid they could leave their property work in this feels and so long and short the proper amount of government makes everyone Freer where are some Advocate Anarchy however it's not because they want no government because they don't like what they have they use Anarchy as a tool for revolutionary change nation of Anarchy is very much like a vacuum with something rushes in to fill it please calculating anarchist's work to break down the existing government with rioting killing looting airism tragically the people living in such chaos off and go to those best able to put an end to it and then them to take over and restore order  and who is stable to put an end to the chaos the very people who started  the anarchists who created the problem then create a government run by them and oligarchy where they have total power this is exactly what happened in Russia that led to Lenin taking total power and in Germany where Hitler's Brown Shirts created the chaos set brought him to power  what energy is in a stable form of government it's a quick transition from something that exists to something desired by the power-hungry it's a temporary condition and because it isn't permanent we eliminated as well  the word democracy comes from two Greek words demos meaning people and Crotty in meaning to rule democracy therefore means the rule of the people majority rule this of course sounds good but suppose the majority decides to take away once home for business or children obviously there has to be a limit the flaw in democracy is it the majority isn't restrained if more than half the people can be persuaded to want something in a democracy they rule  what about well that comes from the Latin res meaning thing and publica meaning public it means the public thing the law  a true public is one with a government is limited by law leaving the people alone  America's Founders had a clean slate to write on they could have set up an oligarchy in fact there were some who wanted George Washington to be there King but the founding fathers new history and they chose to give us the rule of Hillary public not the rule of a majority in a democracy what's the difference in the setting of the Old West is there a religion in a democracy 35 horseback Riders Chase one lone gunman they catch him and they vote 35 - 1 - hanging democracy has triumphed and there's one less gun that the contend with  now consider the same scenario in a republic the 35 horseback Riders Catch lemon and vote 35 to one to hang him but the sheriff arrives and he says you can't kill him he's got his right to a fair trial so they take the gunman the town a jury of his peers is selected and they hear the evidence and the defense and they decide if he shall hang this is jury even decide by me 30 rule no it has to be unanimous or he goes free the rights of the government aren't subject to majority rule but to the law this is the essence of Republic  many Americans would be surprised to learn that the word democracy does not appear in the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution nor does it appear in any of the Constitutions of the 50 states the founders did everything they could to keep us from having a democracy James Madison rightly known as the father of the Constitution wrote in essay number 10 of The Federalist Papers democracies have ever been spectacles turbulence In Contention have ever been found in compatible with personal security or the rights of property and have in general that in short in their lives as they have been violent nerd this  Alexander Hamilton agreed and he stated we are a Republican government real Liberty is never found in despotism when the extremes of democracy Samuel Adams a signer of the Declaration of Independence stated democracy never lasts long it soon wastes exhausts and murders itself  the founders had good reason to look upon democracy with contempt because they knew that the democracies in the early Greek City lights produce some of the wildest excessive government imaginable in every case they ended up with then Anarchy and finally tyranny under an oligarchy during that period in Greece there was a man in Solon who urged creation of a fixed body of law on not subject to charity Williams but where the Greeks never adopted solon's wise counsel the Romans did based on what they knew of solon's laws that created the Twelve Tables Roman law and in fact built a republic that limited government power and left the people alone since government was limited the people were freed reduce with the understanding that they could keep the fruits of their labor in time Rome became wealthy and the Envy of the world limits to plenty however the Roman people forgot what Freedom entailed they forgot that the essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government Garmin power grows people Freedom receipts what's the Romans drop their guard power seeking politicians began to exceed the powers granted them in the Roman consul Lucian some learned that they could elect politicians who would use government power to take property from some and give it to others agriculture subsidies were injured followed by housing and Welfare programs inevitably taxes Rose and controls over the private sector were imposed soon a number of Rome's produces could no longer make and they went on the Dole productivity decline shortages developed and mobs begin roaming the streets demanding bread and circuses from the government many Winters to trade freedom for security the whole system Came Crashing Down they went from a republic to a democracy and ended up with an oligarchy under a progression of the Caesars that's democracy is not a stable form of government instead it is the gradual transition from limited government to the unlimited rule of an oligarchy knowing this we has a reckons are ultimately left with only two choices we can keep our Republic as Franklin put her or we will inevitably end up with an oligarchy tourney of the elite

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