Jay Cost: Democracy or Republic?

Jay Cost, Gerald R. Ford Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, joins WRFH's Abigail Snyder to discuss his new book, Democracy or Republic? The People and the Constitution. In recent years, the Constitution has become a source of political controversy between conservatives and progressives. While the right defends our founding document, the left argues that it’s an antiquated plan of government that goes against basic principles of democratic sovereignty. In his new book, Cost argues that the Constitution is being misunderstood. Its plan of government is for a republic, not a democracy.