A greater number of citizens and extent of
territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous
extreme of either
tyranny or mobocracy (a government where the lower classes of a nation control
public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested
rights).
Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment and
progress in all areas of arts, science, thought and civil liberties.
Republics are the preferred structured base for government
throughout Europe and the Americas.
A republic is a form of government under a
constitution which provides for the election of:
1) An Executive Officer (Article II of the US
Constitution)
(2) A legislative body: (Article I of the US
Constitution) with the power of appointment and through the power of
legislation can raise revenue and appropriate expenditures in
addition to drafting public policy.
(3) A judiciary (Article III of the US
Constitution) to pass upon the justice and legality of their
government acts and to recognize and enforce individual and
sovereign rights.
(4) Expressed and enforced inherent individual
rights, (The US
Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10; additional
Amendments
11-27).
Remove one of the four checks and balances of a
Republic and a country begins becoming an Autocracy.
Add another element with personal involvement and
individual say and the country slides toward democracy.
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