For the many who do not know, it is well to state clearly the distinction between a pure democracy and a republic. In both, the human beings constitute the nation or the state and are its citizens. In both, the citizens _themselves_ limit the matters and the extent in which they shall be governed at all in restraint of their individual freedom. In both, therefore, it is accurate and truthful to state that the people govern themselves. The actual difference lies in one fact. In a democracy the people _themselves_ assemble and themselves enact each specific rule of conduct or law interfering with individual freedom. In a republic, it is always possible that the citizens _may_ assemble, as in a pure democracy, and enact any specific rule of conduct or law. But, in a republic, its citizens generally prefer to act, in such matters, through attorneys in fact or representatives, chosen by themselves for the special purpose of exercising a wise discretion in making _such_ laws. In a true republic, however, where the citizens are to remain free men, they secure to themselves absolute control of their representative lawmakers through two most effective means. _In the first place_, they ordain that their attorneys in fact for the purpose of law-making, generally called their legislators, shall be selected by themselves from time to time, at comparatively short intervals. This precaution enables the people, through new attorneys in fact, quickly to repeal a law of which they do not approve. _In the second place_, the people, in constituting their government, limit the law-making ability of these temporary attorneys in fact or legislators. This is the most important fact in a free republic. Later herein there will be explained the marvelous and effective manner in which this particular security for human freedom was later achieved by the citizens of the Republic which we know as America, when _they_ constituted _their_ government. At present, there is to be mentioned the general method which the citizens of each of those thirteen nations, in 1776, employed to achieve this particular security.