Mercyhurst University professor and political science department chair Joseph Morris views a particular course as the most important he teaches. His Introduction to American Government class is an ...

Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of "The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America's Past." Send an email to Jarrett Is America a democracy or a ...

It is from this commitment to a limited republic where democratic excesses were countered that we have a Constitution which allows for the direct election of Congress (before 1913 the U.S. Senate was ...

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently tweeted that the US is not a pure democracy. REUTERS Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) has been tweeting some interesting things. During this week’s vice-presidential debate, Lee ...

I've often written about the problems with democracy. The main one is that the majority often votes to remove freedom from the individual. Below is a video of Ron Paul (I got the link from Lew ...

It has recently come to my attention that there is some confusion over the type of government we have in the United States. I am not talking about our Commission Form of government in Saratoga Springs ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Whether ballot questions are deliberately convoluted in their wording so as ...

It has of late become en vogue, at least in some circles, to claim that the United States, rather than a democracy is, in fact, a republic. This begs the question: What’s the difference? Recently, I ...

A proposal from grassroots organization Save Vancouver Streets brings up interesting questions about democracy. It also illuminates the differences between pure democracy and representative democracy.

The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends, by Daniel J. Mahoney (ISI Books, 208 pp., $26.95) Across the political ...