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If America is not a republic, its days are numbered

To the editor:

The effort to impeach President Trump seems to continually raise up accusations by the House managers backed up by hearsay, innuendo, maybes, could have beens, twisted interpretations of a telephone conversation, etc. If this had been a trial in a court of law this attempt to convict would have been thrown out the first day.

The House of Representatives is the sole responsible entity to provide evidence and witnesses in the matter of impeachment, not the Senate. They are analogous to a grand jury which would approve or disapprove the indictment of the accused. It is they who are responsible to forward their findings to the court where a trail would be held to determine the innocence or the guilt of the accused, who under our Constitution is innocent until proven guilty. That effort should never be passed off to the jury, the Senate, to create evidence after the conclusion of the House’s indictment (impeachment).

I have to admit to being confused. The Democrat managers continually bring up a non-fact. They continually seem to be addressing the government of another nation, not that of our own. They ignore the fact that the founders of this nation never, not even once in the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, referred to this nation as a democracy, yet the Democrat managers continually refer to this nation as such. In fact quite a few of the founders abhorred the use of democracy to describe our nation. They made it very clear that ours would be a republic.

Adams: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

Jefferson: “A democracy is nothing more that mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.”

Hamilton: We are a Republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy.”

Benjamin Franklin: “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.”

A bystander inquired of Franklin after the Constitutional Convention, “Well doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?” Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

It is obvious that in today’s parlance, socialism is raising its ugly head. It has grown not from the base of Republicanism but from the seeds of democracy/progressiveness into a scheme of control to which a free people would become subject to not to a single dictatorship imposed a person but that of a system beholden to only elitists who would claim to be our betters, absent the voice of the people.

Diane L. Logan

Mifflintown

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