ABSTRACT
In the January 1995 issue of its newsletter, E Pluribus Unum, beneath drawings of the Statue of Liberty and the Liberty Bell, the Ohio Unorganized Militia published an article by Helen Johnson entitled, “America…Representative Republic or Democracy?” Replete with quotations from James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Samuel Adams, and Elbridge Gerry, Johnson argued:
The word Democracy is not found in The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, The U.S. Constitution, or any state’s Constitution. Our Founding Fathers created a Representative Republic. They well understood the nature of these two distinctly different types of government and meticulously worked to create for themselves and their posterity a form of government that they hoped would forever prevent the tyranny of democracy.1
