US: Democracy or Republic?

[Declan McCullagh]

>Reply-To: "Kent Snyder-The Liberty Committee" 
><kentsnyder at thelibertycommittee.org>
>From: "Kent Snyder-The Liberty Committee" <kentsnyder at thelibertycommittee.org>
>To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan at well.com>
>Subject: Release:  Democracy or Republic?
>Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:57:19 -0500
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>The Liberty Committee
>701 W. Broad Street, Fifth Floor
>Falls Church, VA  22046
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>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>Thursday, December 07, 2000
>Contact:  Kent Snyder, 703-241-1003
>E-mail:  kentsnyder at thelibertycommittee.org
>Web site:  http://www.thelibertycommittee.org
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>THE UNITED STATES IS NOT A DEMOCRACY.  IT IS A REPUBLIC.  THE ELECTORAL
>COLLEGE SYSTEM SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED.
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>House Concurrent Resolution (H.C.R.) 443 was submitted Monday, December
>4, 2000 by Representatives Ron Paul (TX), Jack Metcalf (WA), Bob Stump
>(AZ), and Mark Sanford (SC) expressing the sense of Congress in
>reaffirming the United States of America as a republic.  H.C. R. 443
>also reaffirms the electoral college system.
>
>"I call upon every member of the U.S. House of Representatives to
>cosponsor House Concurrent Resolution 443 and ask every citizen to see
>that they do," stated Kent Snyder executive director of The Liberty
>Committee.  He added, "The U.S. is a republic.  Our present system of
>selecting a president and vice president should remain so our republic
>of independent and sovereign states will remain."
>
>The Liberty Committee is a nationwide, grassroots organization of over
>45,000 Americans who are determined to restore the national government
>of the United States to its constitutional limitations in order for
>liberty to prevail.
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