Thanks to my constitutional mentor Scott Bradley. With Tim’s permission, here is his email which I found very helpful on this subject.Īs I finished my response to you I felt I should do a little more research and I think the answer that follows is much better and more detailed. He’d been asked a similar question and in his response drew from a book by Scott Bradley, former senatorial candidate for Utah. Last week someone forwarded me an email from Tim Irwin in Highland, Utah. Some of these same people believe the constitution is the supreme law of the land and that there is no problem calling us a DR. Some people have argued that America is a DR because we have democratically elected representatives who do the will of the people. A Democratic Republic (DR) on the other hand is a republic where the laws are democratically dealt with, in other words, by the sustaining of the majority. To me, a Constitutional Republic means that we are a republic with a written constitution thus making the document the supreme law of the land. It seemed significant enough to warrant taking a position. In the past I’ve had a couple of email or site discussions with people on the difference between these terms.
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