- Colonel Hall C.S.A.
- Republic vs Democracy.....
- Sun Jan 8, 2006 11:26am
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- REPUBLIC vs. DEMOCRACY
- I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States
of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
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- Many of you have seen the reprint of this document. If
you have, it's worth reading again. If you have not, it is worth reading,
studying, and reciting to your friends, family, and neighbors. It is copied
from Training Manual No. 2000-25 that was published by the then War Department,
Washington, D.C., November 30, 1928.
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- Official Definition of DEMOCRACY
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- NOTE
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- Here are four (4) facsimile section reproductions taken
from a 156 page book officially compiled and issued by the U.S. War Department,
November 30,1928, setting forth exact and truthful definitions of a Democracy
and of a Republic, explaining the difference between both. These definitions
were published by the authority of the United States Government and must
be accepted as authentic in any court of proper jurisdiction. These precise
and scholarly definitions of a Democracy and a Republic were carefully
considered as a proper guide for U.S. soldiers and U.S. citizens by the
Chief of Staff of the United States Army. Such definition stake precedence
over any "definition" that may be found in the present commercial
dictionaries which have suffered periodical "modification" to
please "the powers in office. Shortly after the "bank holiday"
in the thirties, hush-hush orders from the White House suddenly demanded
that all copies of this book be withdrawn from the Government Printing
Office and the Army posts, to be suppressed and destroyed without explanation.
This was the beginning of the complete red control of the Government from
within, not from without.
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- Prepared under the direction of the Chief of Staff.
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- CITIZENSHIP
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- This manual supersedes Manual of Citizenship Training
The use of the publication "The Constitution of the United States,"
by Harry Atwood, is by permission and courtesy of the author.
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- CITIZENSHIP Democracy:
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- A government of the masses. Authority derived through
mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression. Results
in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property
rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate,
whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice,
and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism,
license, agitation, discontent, anarchy
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- CITIZENSHIP Republic:
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- Authority is derived through the election by the people
of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward law
is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established
evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens
and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous
extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty,
reason, justice, contentment, and progress. Is the "standard form"
of government throughout the world. A republic is a form of government
under a constitution which provides for the election of
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- (1) an executive and (2) a legislative body, who working
together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment,
all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures,
and are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and
legality of their government acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent
individual rights.
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- Take away any one or more of those four elements and
you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements
and you are drifting into democracy.
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- Atwood. Superior to all others.--Autocracy declares the
divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers
are arbitrarily or unjustly administered. Democracy is the "direct"
rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success. Our Constitutional
fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and
democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative
republican form of government. They "made a very marked distinction
between a republic and a democracy * * * and said repeatedly and emphatically
that they had founded a republic."
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- "By order of the Secretary of War: C.P. Summerall,
Major General, Chief of Staff. Official: Lutz Wahl, Major General, The
Adjutant General.
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- WHY DEMOCRACIES FAIL
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- A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government.
It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess
out of the public treasury. >From that moment on the majority always
votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury
with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy,
always to be followed by a Dictatorship.(Written by Professor Alexander
Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago while our thirteen original states
were still colonies of Great Britain. At the time he was writing of the
decline and fall of the Athenian Republic over two thousand years before.
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- "Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I
said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United
States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often
by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe
an infamous mixture of socialism, miscegenation, graft, confiscation of
property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles
make them offensive."
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- Westbrook Pegler: New York Journal American, January
25th and 26th, 1951, under the titles- Upholds Republic of U.S. Against
Phony Democracy, Democracy in the U.S. Branded Meaningless
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- "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in
a state of civilization,
- it expects what never was and never will be."
- --Thomas Jefferson, 1816.
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