The delegates approved a resolution emphasizing that the United States is a republic, not a democracy, and asserting that “every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of the Democratic Party.” The resolution called on Republicans to avoid the word, and opposed not only “efforts to use American military might to spread ‘democracy’ around the world” but also “legislation which makes our nation more ‘democratic’ in nature.” It quoted President John Adams saying democracy is “more bloody than aristocracy or monarchy” and that “there was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
Other resolutions called for an end to mail-in voting and a repeal of
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