I tell them various other stories, and I always try to help them to learn some things about the Senate, about our Constitution, and about our form of government. And I talked with them about the same things that I am going to say here with reference to a democracy versus a republic. One reason for this is because politicians of all political parties generally refer to our government as a democracy.
Politicians generally do that.
Glib references are constantly being made anent our democracy. But our form of government, strictly speaking, is not a democracy. It may more properly be called a representative democracy, but, strictly speaking, ours is a republic. We passed that law in the House on June 7, 1955. I will always be proud that I was a Member of the House of Representatives when we passed those two pieces of legislation.