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A 7 page research paper that discusses the relationship between the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and these documents affect the formulation of law. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of their new nation. Reportedly, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia inquired of Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy? With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded:
A republic, if you can keep it" (McManus 22). In recent years, Franklin has often been misquoted as saying "a democracy, if you can keep it" and McManus points out
that this error is significant. The term "democracy" is associated with majority rule and comes from the Greek words demos and kratein, which roughly translated means "the people to rule"
(McManus 22). The word "republic" is from the Latin phrase res publica, which means "the public things" or even more simply "the laws" (McManus 22). While the Founding Fathers
believed in the words of the Declaration of Independence, that is, that "Men...are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," they also recognized that these rights could easily be
restrained and violated by unrestrained majority rule as by an unrestrained authoritarian monarch (McManus 22). They saw that unrestrained majority rule could quickly degenerate into tyranny (McManus 22). In writing
the US Constitution, the Founding Fathers "created a government of law and not of men, a republic and not a democracy" (McManus 22). Democracies, such as those in ancient Greece,
are ruled directly the people. In a republic, the government is run by the peoples elected representatives. Samuel Adams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a champion of
the new Constitution because it did not create a democracy (McManus 22). Adams commented that "Democracy never lasts long...It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself" (McManus 22). As this
indicates, the Founding Fathers realized fully that achieving a majority does not guarantee that what this majority decides will be right, just or not infringe on the hard-won liberties of
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