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.

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised when, as if on cue, the elected ...

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 ...

Utahns like to believe we are exceptional. Unfortunately, our mostly single-party state flunks when it comes to representative government. Rigged Elections Utahns like to believe we are exceptional.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When politicians state,”We are not a democracy, we are a republic,” it makes me think that they are either uneducated on the subject or are just trying to confuse and scare people. They are correct in ...

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 ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Imagine that we've all -- all of us, all of society -- landed on some alien planet, and we have to form a government: clean slate. We don't have any legacy systems from the United ...