Why we Live in a Republic and Not a Democracy

The impeachment shenanigans are precisely why we live in Republic and NOT a Democracy. If my book "Defending Freedom of Contract" were published next year I would have used this charade as an example of the republic protections of the constitution to prevent a majority of imposing its will on a minority. These were the fears of James Madison as he clearly articulated in Federalist Paper 10.

Let me explain that I do not like Trump. He is a narcissistic a&%hole. I would enjoy having Pence being the President. But that does not matter. I listened to 4 Constitutional Lawyers yesterday explain the impeachment clause. Three thought that impeaching a president based on limited facts in a partisan way was okay. They felt impeachment should be political and easy to accomplish. In fact, I believe no future president is safe from impeachment using the standard raised by those three Con Lawyers. One Con Lawyer rightfully thought the Dems should proceed and try to get more evidence and was fearful of the the precedent the current impeachment would set. What I did not hear from these Lawyers is that the founders placed many republic protections to prevent against a coup d'etat (or to protect against Madison's majority faction fears in FP 10). Even if the house votes to impeach, there must be a Senate trial with the chief justice presiding and there must be two-thirds majority. For this reason, the founders did not want to make it easy to impeach a president over a policy disagreements or minor offenses. In fact, president Andrew Johnson, could not be removed from office even though he was a Democratic president with a Republican dominated legislature residing over an angry and bitter North following the assassination of Lincoln and the end of bloody Civil War. Several Republican Senators, including Lyman Turnbull saw the dangers of the precedent they were setting. Emotions should not be part of impeachment, but unfortunately that is what is happening. Turnbull is mentioned in my book for his heroic fight for civil rights.

I am sick of hearing people proclaim that they want to protect our democracy. Because that is precisely what they are doing. They protecting a democracy at the expense of a republic and that is wrong. If impeachment becomes a democratic issue, as the Left would like, then it would take only 51 votes to convict an impeached president. The progressive movement has been a silent coup d'etat moving the country from a republic to a democracy (i.e. the trampling of federalism and State rights) and now the 2020 Dem candidates want to move this country towards a socialist state. This is not upholding the constitution, it is violating the basic republic protections in the constitution. For instance, the Left talking about eliminating the protections of the electoral college is one example of violating our Constitutional republic protections (Read my book to explain why we have the Electoral College and how our vote counts more, not less in such a system).