Robert Heichberger
Recently, I attended several community board meetings in a virtual manner. My objective was to view a republic in action. At each of these meetings, the public was invited to view their opinion on various subjects under discussion. The local press was in attendance and the newspaper reported on each of these meetings in their next edition of the paper. This is the way things should happen in a Republic.
The word republic, derived from the Latin res publica, or “public thing.” We live in the United States and it is a Republic. The word “democracy” does not appear anywhere in the Declaration of Independence or in our Constitution. In fact, the Constitution states “to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government” is established.