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Democracy? No, a Republic for the Opulent

Democracy? No, a Republic for the Opulent

Gary Potter November 4, 2020

On October 8, Senator Mike Lee tweeted the following: “We’re not a democracy.” Senator Lee, in this particular case, is correct. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 intended the United States to be a nondemocratic republic which would protect the interests of a very small group of people over the majority of the citizenry.

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