Seriously though, below is what I wrote on Facebook in response to Barton's strange blatherings:
We are a democracy and a republic. Revolutionary France called itself a republic. France also recognized a "higher law" -- a theism to undergird its principles to which they appealed; they simply -- like America -- re-envisioned this monotheistic God to be more "revolutionary." And this is one reason why many American Christians at the time supported the French Revolution and saw it as a continuation of the American.
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What Barton meant was a "constitutional" republic, where there is a higher law than popular sentiment [democracy]. Moreover, he cites the natural law arguments of the Declaration of Independence.
He was chatting in a car, fer crissakes.
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