The venerated Fathers of the Nation, who in the summer of 1787 assembled in Philadelphia to write a constitution (ratified in 1789) actually assumed that the United States could not become a pure ...

actually assumed that the United States could not become a pure democracy. Just how democratic the nation should be was during this revolutionary era a deeply controversial issue, and it remains ...

Those who like to call America a republic often pretend that we are such because we’re not a “direct democracy” (aka a “pure democracy”). A direct democracy is a system in which the ...

Nowhere in the Constitution does it use the word ‘democracy.’ I think of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. That’s not us.” Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, posted last week: ...

Those who like to call America a republic often pretend that we are such because we’re not a “direct democracy” (aka a “pure democracy”). A direct democracy is a system in which the population ...

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate if the possible threat by the Trump administration to ignore judicial decisions a threat to American democracy?

They divide people, the pure versus the impure ... The challenge is when a movement is exploiting religion to destroy our democracy, it's really time to speak up. It was clear to me from the ...

The party once championed democracy; now, it cowers before authoritarianism ... the middle and working classes are seen to be pure political posturing. His voters will see that his programs ...