Clarence Page: Are we a ‘democracy’ or a ‘republic’? How about both?
Are we a “republic” or a “democracy?” Every time I think this question — a golden oldie for grade school civics classes, high school debate teams and call-ins by C-SPAN viewers — has gone away, it pops up again.
Its latest life comes to us from the Twitter fingers of Republican Sen. Mike Lee, a rising conservative star from Utah, who in a series of tweets during the recent vice presidential debate, declared,
