Federal Democratic Republic

Famous quotes containing the words federal, democratic and/or republic:

    The proposed Constitution ... is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
    James Madison (1751–1836)

    That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing—the truly democratic thing about it—is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.
    Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.
    Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)