We Americans live in a representative democracy. That’s a fundamental feature of public life in the United States, a part of who we are as a people. We elect leaders to make decisions on our behalf.

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Map of the United States. The northwestern corner displays an American flag. The lower half of the map displays the U.S. Constitution showing the words, "We the People." John P. Pelissero is director ...

Officially, our form of government in the U.S. is a representative democracy. This means citizens vote for their government officials. But Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is of a different opinion. “Of ...

I write to challenge a Letter to the Editor claiming our founders used the terms republic and democracy interchangeably. Quite the contrary. The authors of the Constitution did not equate ...

The endorsement of Kim Hoover in the May primary by the chairman of the Summit County Republican Party was most unfortunate. Numerous fliers and literature suggested the Republican Party was endorsing ...

In recent years, Republicans at all levels have emphasized that our form of government is a republic, not a democracy. This is done, not really to educate, but as an advertising ploy: to keep some ...

The largest commercial advertiser in the U.S. in 2019 was Amazon at $6.88 billion. In comparison, the Democrats and Republicans spent $14 billion on the election! The result? The biggest spender won ...

In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...

237 years ago, four men — Washington, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay rescued America from chaos (“The Quartet” by Joseph Ellis). These four and six years of frustration, exasperation and compromise pulled ...