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Donald Livingston, a contributing editor to Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, is a professor of philosophy at Emory University and president of The Abbeville Institute.
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  • Is America a “Republic”?(0)

    I entirely agree with the spirit of this roundtable but not with the language of restoring “the Republic.” The United States is not now and has never been a republic. It is a federation of states, each of which, in Article IV of the Constitution, is guaranteed a republican form of government. But a federation of republics is not itself a republic any more than the federation of nations in the United Nations, or in the European Union, is a nation. A federation is a service agency of the political units that compose it.