posted on Nov, 9 2020 @ 05:10 PM
a reply to:
alphabetaone
Yes, you are. And that is ok. I'm wrong on the internet all the time. Especially when I don't cite my references.
Now, you've been kind enough to cite your references. That's been great and I appreciate your efforts. But all of your references are just backing up
a colloquialism of terms not a legal status on the form of government in the United States.
The form of government is prescribed by Article 4 Section 4 of the US Constitution.
The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land. That's not just fancy language, that's a legal status. Meaning that no law written anywhere
supersedes the Constitution whatsoever. That concept is codified by and found in the supremacy clause, which we could discuss as well if you'd
like.
Article 4 Section 4 of the US Constitution reads as follows:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against
Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Since no law supersedes the authority of the US Constitution and the Constitution itself prescribed the form of government, then it is correct,
accurate, and factual to state that the United States is itself a Constitutional Republic. Each of the states, all subordinate to the Constitution and
to their own state constitutions, who also form their respective governments, are also Constitutional Republics.
edit on 11 9 2020 by
projectvxn because: (no reason given)