I have established the republic. But today it is not clear whether the form of government is a republic, a dictatorship, or personal rule.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.
I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
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.
Well, when did this become a monarchy? You know, we are the people. The president works for us and, you know, we need to remember that.
Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.