American Republic Quotes
Sharp lines on the American Republic's structure, flaws, and fate.
These quotes take the American Republic seriously as a political experiment, not just a slogan - one traces its ballot-box problems, another points to the exclusion of women from the vote at its founding. Together they read as a running argument about American identity.
Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.
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The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
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The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do these quotes criticize the American Republic or praise it?
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The sharpest line here compares the Republic's likely fate to Rome's, while another explains why the Constitution deliberately divided power to block unchecked majorities. It's a collection built for readers who come to quotes wanting substance over slogans.
