Are Republicans anti-republican?
By Dave Read, Lenox, MA, Dec. 22, 2025 – The rights that define what it means to be an American transcend politics. As stated in the documents that establish America, those rights are “inalienable” grants of nature, or nature’s God, which means government is prohibited from interfering with our full exercise and enjoyment of them.
The political rights enjoyed by American corporations, however, are not the same thing, but are artificial privileges, to be defined and administered by the state that grants them. Being artificial, the rights of corporations do not include the human rights protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
No corporation enjoys an inalienable right of speech, privacy, or assembly; none has the right to arm itself, nor to vote. The American experiment in self-governance is based on the concept that each adult citizen has one vote, which implies a limit to an individual’s political power.
The American republic is distinguished from parliamentary and other forms of democracy by the equalizing principle of one person, one vote, without Crown, landed aristocracy, or oligarchy to diminish it. We don’t allow a person with two houses to vote twice, nor should we allow anybody to buy votes, either directly or through bribery, blackmail, hypnosis, clever marketing, deceptive advertising, or other means.
Inc.s and .Orgs have zero votes
The fact that corporations, whether commercial, educational, religious, fraternal, or charitable are prohibited from voting implies that their participation in the political process is profoundly limited. If the people who create corporations wanted them to participate in elections, they’d have made them eligible to vote.
Political participation by corporations can come only at the expense of citizens, because, in a republic, all political power is vested in them. The power of the vote must not be allowed to be diluted, siphoned off, or diverted to corporations, which are creatures not of nature but of state legislatures.
And so we arrive at the cause of the current crisis in American politics – the party that calls itself Republican espouses the anti-republican doctrine of a Unitary Executive, which alone accounts for the presidencies of someone whose own criminal behavior is far worse that the 34 felonies he has been convicted of, but not yet punished for.
The Republican party has so trampled on the principle of one person one vote that one awful person has been allowed to squander and dishonor so much of what is has taken 250 years for good, honest Americas to establish. If Republicans fail to own and amend their error, they will constitute a clear and present danger to government of the people, by the people, and for the people, in the words of their own founding father, Abraham Lincoln.
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