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Constitutional Republic (view source)
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, 17:36, August 13, 2007Tocqueville
“A Constitutional Republic” is a government created and controlled, at least, by the Law of a Constitution. The Constitution of the United States of America was, in Law, foundationally based on the Bible, the Magna Carta, and The Declaration of Independence. Those documents recognize man’s sovereignty, the divine nature of man’s creation and man’s divine right to Life, Liberty, Property, and the pursuit of happiness.<ref>[http://www.teamlaw.org/Government/ConstitutionalRepublic.htm Definition of a Constitutional Republic by teamlaw.org]</ref>
“A Constitutional Republic” is a government created and controlled, at least, by the Law of a Constitution. The Constitution of the United States of America was, in Law, foundationally based on the Bible, the Magna Carta, and The Declaration of Independence. Those documents recognize man’s sovereignty, the divine nature of man’s creation and man’s divine right to Life, Liberty, Property, and the pursuit of happiness.<ref>[http://www.teamlaw.org/Government/ConstitutionalRepublic.htm Definition of a Constitutional Republic by teamlaw.org]</ref>
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== Limits On Government ==
The purpose of a Constitutional Republic is to place limits on the tyranny of the majority. [[Alexis de Tocqueville]] wrote:
<blockquote>If, on the other hand, a legislative power could be so constituted as to represent the majority without necessarily being the slave of its passions, an executive so as to retain a proper share of authority, and a judiciary so as to remain independent of the other two powers, a government would be formed which would still be democratic while incurring scarcely any risk of tyranny.<ref>[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/detoc/1_ch15.htm Democracy in America Chapter 15]</ref></blockquote>
== References ==
== References ==