Antocracy:

.Authority is derived through heredity

.People have no choice in the selection of their rules and no voice in making laws.

. Results in arbitrariness, tyranny, and oppression

. Attitude towards property is feudalistic.

. Attitude towards law is that the will of the ruler shall control, regardless of reason of consequences.

A Republic is a form of government under a Constitution which provides for the election of (1) an executive and (2) a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power if legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create(3)a judiciary to pass upon justice and legality of their government acts and to recognize(4) certain Inherent individual right.

Take away any one of more of these four elements and you are drifting into Democracy- Atwood.

Superior to all othes- Autocracy declares the Devine right of kings, it's authority cannot be questioned; it's powersvare arbitrary or unjustly administer.

Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.

Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both Autocracy and Democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, define a representative Republican form of government. They "made very marked distinction between a Republic and a Democracy...and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a Republic."

Madison, in the Federalist, emphasized the fact that this government was a Republic and NOT a Democracy, the constitution makers having considered both an Autocracy and a Democracy a undesirable forms of government while "a Republic promises the cure for which we are seeking".

In a Democracy the people meet and exercise the government in person. In a Republic they assemble and administer it by their respective agents. - Madison

The advantage which a Republic has over Democracy consists in the substitutions of representatives whose enlightened views and virtuous sentiments render them superior to local prejudices and to schemes of injustice.- Madison