A republic, not a democracy
With regard to Tom Flickinger’s Jan. 8 commentary piece on the Electoral College, I can only hope that the readers of the Observer-Reporter fully appreciate what he wrote.
Clearly, the United States is a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
Even Francis Bellamy, a Baptist minister and avowed socialist, got it right when he correctly identified our country as a republic in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Bill Brooks
Waynesburg