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Dennis Gronquist

Stillwater

To the editor:

Mark Krzmarzick seems like a fairly well informed writer and reader of the News Press. Good for him. I hope its not liberal brainwashing. In his Letter to the Editor, Writers arguments filled with holes on July 6, it is evident that he is still somewhat confused, as are many other people, over the difference between a democracy and a republic.

Yes, Mark, I agree with Merriam-Webster, even though it is a poor source for explaining this difference. Wikipedia or Blacks Law Dictionary are somewhat better, but it is still somewhat confusing as they are similar. Both democracies and republics may have laws written by representative governments. Thats a no brainer. But your attempt to clarify the terminology is not helping. What we just agreed upon does not change the fact that we do not have a democracy or a democratic republic. Yes, there are similarities.

To quote Steve King, Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

A better definition is to quote Benjamin Franklin, We have a constitutional republic, if we can keep it.

The Founders established limits on what government can do without public approval. When these constitutional limits are routinely violated by government, and we do nothing about it, our government is openly evolving into something other than what was originally intended and what has served us and the world so well. A prime example is the Democratic Party with a socialist candidate and platform. Then, there are the bogus Oklahoma public trusts used by the City Council to justify double utility rates and other excessive fees, simply because the state allows it.

They do not serve the common man, but their governmental entities at public expense. In doing so, they violate not only the Oklahoma state constitution, but the U.S. Constitution; the supreme law of the land.

The best example of a true democratic republic is still the Democratic Peoples Republic of (North) Korea, the proud DPRK, with its million man army. To suggest our government is a democratic republic is not only in error, its ludicrous.

If the majority ruled, Hillary Clinton would be carrying on the socialist practices of her predecessor. Thankfully, the Constitution defines an electoral college that temporarily saved us from paying the welfare state in Mexifornia; who, like our city employees, will always want more.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: We're no democracy, thank goodness - Stillwater News Press