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Originally posted by seretogis
I believe that the US is a Representative Republic, not a "Democratic Republic."
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the united states is a democratic republic based upon representative democracy.
representative democracy: voters democratically elect individuals to represent their geographical regions in various levels of local, state and national government.
democratic republic: the nation is a republic, a collection of separate and equal democratic states which have voluntarily joined under the governorship of a body of elected individuals, and operate as a federation.
"republic" is defined in the american heritage dictionary as follows:
NOUN: 1a. A political order whose head of state is not a monarch and in modern times is usually a president. b. A nation that has such a political order.
2a. A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. b. A nation that has such a political order.
3. often Republic A specific republican government of a nation: the Fourth Republic of France.
4. An autonomous or partially autonomous political and territorial unit belonging to a sovereign federation.
5. A group of people working as equals in the same sphere or field: the republic of letters.