Over its 248 years, the American constitutional republic has become more democratized. Here's what that means for its citizens.

At that point, our constitutional republic will be dead. We are now on the precipice. Ben Franklin was famously asked if the newly established United States was a republic or monarchy.

Consider that President Abraham Lincoln, facing a civil war, which he termed the great test of popular government, used constitutional republic and democracy synonymously, eloquently casting the ...

The answer is simple: There are profound differences between a democracy and a constitutional republic that are crucial to every aspect of American life.

Election denialism has become not only a thing but a movement. And if critics call this an attack on democracy, some election deniers respond by saying the U.S. is not a democracy, it is a republic.

Keeping the Republic: A Defense of American Constitutionalism, by Dennis Hale and Marc Landy (University of Kansas Press, 2023). The United States Constitution is under attack—again. The chorus of ...

Operative since 1789, our Constitution provides a constitutional republic. Accordingly, our Founders limited the president's powers to those specified by the Constitution or laws passed by Congress.

Over its 248 years, the American constitutional republic has become more democratized. Here's what that means for its citizens.

Debates that pit our nation's status as democracy or constitutional republic tend to intensify around specific policy debates or more generally among candidates in high-profile elections, such as ...