'Democracy'

There has been a lot of talk about democracy and threats to democracy lately, but what is democracy? Founding father, Benjamin Franklin described it as two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Franklin also famously said, after the Philadelphia Convention which created the United States of America, when asked what form of government they had created, "A republic, if you can keep it." Two hundred and thirty-five years later, when the survival of the republic is at risk, Americans are debating if we even are a republic, or a democracy. CNN recently aired a segment referring to the fact that our nation is a republic as, "conspiracy theories". Is the United States a democracy, or a republic, and why is it important to know the difference? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #222.