By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - When our children were young, we had a regular light-hearted morning routine. After breakfast I would head to my office, asking, “Do you know what I’m going to do today?” And the children—having been coached—would chorus: “Save the world from democracy.”... Our government is not a democracy—at least, not just a democracy. When he was asked what sort of government the Constitutional Convention had designed for us, Benjamin Franklin famously answered: “A republic—if you can keep it.”