Earlier this week, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) proclaimed that the United States was a "republic, not a democracy," which has become something a mantra among conservatives.  Frank and David talk about the origins of this phrase, what the words "republic" and "democracy" meant to the founding generation, and what its popularity today says about modern conservatism.

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Frank: Jeffrey Ostler, Surviving Genocide

David: Glasgow's History of Slavery in the British Caribbean