Lesson 13 Time: 28:29 [for Sunday May 18, 2014]
The 5000 Year Leap: 12th Principle: Reading Assignment: Advantages of a Republic  (pages 153-61);
As a result of this lesson, the student should be able to discuss the following questions/topics: 
1. What is a democracy? Why does democracy always end in tyranny? (Pages 153-54) 
"and to the Republic..."
o not a democracy!
-requires full participation
-people will not study issues
-people will not sit through hours of hearings
-Greeks tried - ended in tyranny

Democracy vs. Republic- (p 154) 
D
1d -- all people participate
2d -- majority rules
3d -- no protection of rights
4d -- poor outvotes the rich, no protection of property
 -- and tyranny
5d -- works only for a small group
6d -- ends in turbulence

2. What is a republic? Why did the founders prefer it to a democracy? (154-55) 
R
1r -- Gov. by freely elected representatives of the people
2r -- rule by law
3r -- protection of rights
4r -- protection of property
5r -- works for a very large region
6r -- (ends) in perpetuity


3. Describe how the word "democracy" became a tool of the socialist cause. (155-57) 
Changing Meaning of Democracy 
o Used to mean socialism
o Most Americans think it means the way the founders set up our government.
o Confusion began with the ISS Intercollegiate Socialist Society in 1905
o Organized to promote movement of "industrial democracy known as socialism"

ISS
o Slogan: "Production for use, not for profit"
o Popularized thru govt., press, radio etc..
o By 1921, "socialism" gets bad name
-USSR
-repugnant to many Americans
o ISS changed name to "League for Industrial Democracy"
o All the people could enjoy all the profits

4. Tell how the government's own literature once distinguished between a democracy and a 
republic. (157-58) 
U.S. Government warns against
o U.S. Army Training Manual on Democracy
-gov by the masses
-direct expression
-mobocracy
- communistic - no property rights
-passion, prejudice, impulse

o U.S. Army Training Manual on Republic
-Gov. by representatives
-authority by election
-fixed principles
-larger territory
-statesmen, liberty for all

5. Explain how the term "democracy" became entrenched as a description of our society during 
President Woodrow Wilson's administration. (158-59) 
United States a Democracy?
o Pres Woodrow Wilson said W.W. 1 would "make the world safe for democracy"
o Recruited many ISS workers
o ISS workers went to work for:
- press
- teacher-training colleges
- churches


6. How has the word "democracy" lost its identification with socialism in the American mind? 
(159-60) 
o Democracy loses its identification with socialism
- Socialism lost its appeal
- US continued to be referred to as a Democracy
- In minds of Americans, Democracy came to mean the original system.

7. Can it be said that the term "democracy" has actually been used to attack the Constitution? 
(160-61)
Attack on the Constitution
o Democracy demotes the Founders Ideas
o Seems to imply Founder's ideas are out dated
o Initiative
- People pass petitions and vote in own laws
o Referendum- legislature refers issues to people