A theocracy is a type of government that is ruled by a god or supreme being. The Judeans were at one time a theocracy. The synagogue was the center of all life in the Judean community. In the old testament it says:

Psalm 33:12
12Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Our country is not a theocracy. In this country however more than half of the citizens profess Christianity as their system of belief. The people who came to this country came to find a place to worship the God of the Bible freely. Our founding fathers were very conscious of the value of freedom of religion when they constructed the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.

At the end of the Constitutional Convention someone asked Benjamin Franklin "What have you wrought?" He said in response, "….a Republic, if you can keep it."The word republic is from the Latin 'res public' which is translated "a public affair".

The United States of America's government is a representative democracy, which means that there is an election to select people to responsibly act in the people's best interests. It is a constitutional republic meaning that those duly elected representatives are governed by the constitution of the United States. There is a system of checks and balances to insure individual rights and that no one group or person has absolute power. Warren Burger, who has been a Chief Justice in the Supreme Court Said, "For 200 years this Constitutions's ordered liberty has unleashed the energies and talents of people…." 'Ordered liberty' is a great way to put it.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Declaration of Independence
http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.htm
Constitution
http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm

Tuesday in Illinois! it is time to vote in the primary. You will have to select a ballot, either republican or democrat. You may be an independent, but you still have to select a ballot of one of the two parties.
There are many quizzes on the net to determine what party you lean to.Here's one:


http://typology.people-press.org/typology/

"Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -- or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country."
~Samuel Adams