“A Republic…If you can keep it!”
2009

In 1787, Constitution Convention Pennsylvania delegate Benjamin Franklin was asked, “What form of government was created by this new constitution, a democracy or a monarchy?” Without hesitation, Franklin responded with the quote above.

The Constitution Party supports only a republican form of government. So does the US Constitution which clearly states in Article 4, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican form of government.” Not a democracy --- it says republican! True support of the Constitution means defending individual rights and upholding rule of law, not rule of man.

Why is this difference so important? Understand, the Founding Fathers knew exactly what a democracy was and that’s why they did NOT want it. The definitions below are from the official 1928 Soldiers Field Training Manual and best explains the stark contrast between the two:

A democracy is: “A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct” expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude towards property is communistic—negating property rights. Attitude towards law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based on deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent and anarchy.”

A republic is: “Authority is derived through the election by the people, of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude towards property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either Tyranny or Mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment and progress.”

Still think a democracy and republic as the same thing? No way! Educate yourself, friend, and find out what America’s liberators really thought of democracy:

“Remember, a democracy never lasts long. It eventually wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” --- John Adams, America’s 2nd president

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” --- Benjamin Franklin

“We are a Republican Government.” --- Alexander Hamilton, New York delegate, excerpt from the Federalist Papers

“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.”— James Madison, 4th President of the United States, Father of the Constitution

“If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare…they may become teachers in every state…The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of limited government established by the people of America.” --- James Madison

"The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived." --- John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.” --- Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, America’s 3rd president.

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
--- Thomas Jefferson, 1790

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The party information packet includes the CPoW’s platform which is copied from the US Constitution and the original intent of the Founding Fathers. Our members and candidates for office vigorously champion the Bill of Rights, your individual rights which are yours as a citizen from birth–from birth–(a republic) and can NEVER be voted away by majority vote of Congress or mob rule (a democracy). Did the Democrats or Republicans ever explain these clear differences to you? Why not?

The Constitution Party of Wisconsin members and supporters also possess a wealth of personal knowledge on these issues and they live throughout the Republic of Wisconsin. What? You didn’t know Wisconsin is actually sovereign? Every state in the union is sovereign. True, each state surrenders some of its rights when joining the Union (states cannot coin their own money, sign treaties with other nations, have their own army, etc.) but each state is a sovereign republic.

Friend, if you know the truths in this flyer already, it’s your duty to share those truths then you need to join this party so we can, as Ben Franklin said, “… all hang together…” or he warned “…we will all hang separately.” Much has been done to unravel this Republic (a worthless currency, moral decay, killing of the unborn, denying of property and parental rights, transforming our nation into a democracy); much will need to be done to restore it.

The Constitution Party: Constitutionally Correct…Always!