Government is Incomplete Conquest

... against executive tyranny, it also provides for a range of safeguards against democracy. When I was an undergraduate in the United States, there was an organization on campus called Young Americans for Freedom. They liked to say that "This is a Republic, not a democracy. Let's keep it that way." This was also a slogan of the John Birch Society (Knight , 2013: 164 ) In fact, although the U.S. Constitution stipulates that the "United States shall guarantee to every State in this ...