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Josh Brecheen: “Democracy leads to whatever is popular casting the vote. It…”

Featuring: Josh Brecheen, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 2nd Congressional District

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Congressman Brecheen March Telephone Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 1:04:18

Your representative making the best choice for what they believe is the right thing to produce. Blessings for you and your children's future. Populism. Democracy. That's why you hear so many people want to use that term. Democracy leads to whatever is popular casting the vote. It tramples minority rights. Our founders, Benjamin Franklin outside the Constitutional Convention I say this often was asked by Elizabeth Powell, what have you given us? Have you given us a monarch or a republic? (1:04:18–1:04:26)

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Asserts that democracy, as opposed to a republic, can lead to the trampling of minority rights.

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