Our Founding Documents
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America is a Constitutional Republic, not a Democracy!
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(John Winthrop’s model for the
Shining City Set on a Hill to be
known as America)
THOMAS PAINE, COMMON SENSE (1776)
“We have staked the whole future of American civilization not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments.”
James Madison
Attributed