KING CHARLES LIED. He said, "George Washington, and his fellow founders was to forge a democracy founded upon . . . ." They formed a Republic, if we can keep it. They uniformly loathed Democracy.

They formed a Republic, if we can keep it.

They uniformly loathed Democracy.

They said so, explicitly in Federalist 10 and their correspondence with each other. https://t.co/yZSbwlWHRT

— Linuxhippie (@linuxhippie) April 29, 2026

from Jon Troyer,

Why Can't People Get This Right? . . . because they don't want to

"Out of the fires of a bitter and bloody revolutionary war, the triumph of the father of this country, George Washington, and his fellow founders was to forge a democracy founded upon the rights to liberty and the rule of law." - King Charles III, April 28, 2026

George Washington had very little input on the actual formation of the language of the U.S. Constitution, although he did write letters later in support of its ratification. Aside from voting as a delegate on proposals and presiding over the convention as its president and maintaining order, he spoke only on the final day of the Constitutional Convention, in support of a motion to give Congress the power to enlarge the House of Representatives up to a maximum of one representative per 30,000 people, if it chose to do so. Washington also did not participate in the Continental Congress debates that gave rise to the Declaration of Independence over a decade earlier, as he was in New York as Commander of the Continental Army. In writings, Washington frequently referenced the republican model of government. In his First Inaugural Address (1789), he spoke of

"the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government" as staked on the American experiment.

He said in his Farewell Address (1796),

"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy."

Elizabeth Willing Powel's question,

"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"

Benjamin Franklin's response,

"A republic, if you can keep it."

In Federalist #10, James Madison wrote,

“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”