There is an old story that Benjamin Franklin was approached after exiting the Constitutional Convention, and he was asked what sort of a government they had created.
This from redstate.com.
His response was:
Virtually everyone who learned anything from their middle school/junior high school government class moved forward knowing the United States of America is a Constitutional Republic, although the misinformation reported by the mass propaganda media seems to have many people confused about this topic.
Here is what is printed in the Constitution:
Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect…