CONSTITUTION: Guarantees a Republican form of government

Dear Mr. Brent Regan:

I recently read two of your articles “Born Leader and Democrat democracy” in the Coeur d’Alene Press. Your assessment of these issues is spot on. What I don’t understand is why there is no outcry by the Republican Party about Kamala Harris’ status to run for president. As for democracy when I talk to my grandsons about political systems they commonly refer to the United States as a democracy seldom mentioning the Constitution guarantees a Republican form of government. This is where I see the problem. Most people refer to the United States as a democracy which is learned in our defective public education system.

As I see it our public education system is where the problem lies because we have failed to seriously address Aristotle’s three problems which are:

(1) The problem of knowledge;

(2) The problem of conduct, and;

(3) The problem of governance.

When our public education system gets serious about addressing these three problems I believe many of the misunderstandings about our form of government will be addressed.

ROBERT M. BLANSFIELD

Rathdrum