http://www.utahsrepublic.org A Constitutional Right Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.utahsrepublic.org/get-educated/5000-year-leap/comment-page-1/#comment-213 braddennis Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:45:25 +0000 http://www.utahsrepublic.org/?page_id=35#comment-213 This is nonsense. The republic can be defined as an indirect or representative democracy. The democracy that the founders spoke of was direct democracy in the Aristotelian sense. They favored a more refined and qualified democratic method of republicanism. There is no socialist conspiracy that the Federal government is going to take full control. Cleon Skousen was paranoid, misinformed, and did not know the first thing about the critical writing of history. This is nonsense. The republic can be defined as an indirect or representative democracy. The democracy that the founders spoke of was direct democracy in the Aristotelian sense. They favored a more refined and qualified democratic method of republicanism. There is no socialist conspiracy that the Federal government is going to take full control. Cleon Skousen was paranoid, misinformed, and did not know the first thing about the critical writing of history.

]]> http://www.utahsrepublic.org/get-educated/5000-year-leap/comment-page-1/#comment-131 wpbehr Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:55:43 +0000 http://www.utahsrepublic.org/?page_id=35#comment-131 I would suggest that you provide citations for your sources and a list of further reading. And not limit the further reading list to books and articles which support your position--one with which I agree--because a well informed opinion knows their oppositions views as well as their own otherwise they not what they are arguing for anymore than they know what they are arguing against. I would suggest that you provide citations for your sources and a list of further reading. And not limit the further reading list to books and articles which support your position–one with which I agree–because a well informed opinion knows their oppositions views as well as their own otherwise they not what they are arguing for anymore than they know what they are arguing against.

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