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Originally Posted by DukeSkywalker
Because we are not a democracy. “And to the republic…”
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You are really embarrassing yourself.
Merriam-Webster: Democracy or Republic: What's the difference?
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The short answer is that democracy and republic are frequently used to mean the same thing: a government in which the people vote for their leaders.
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Because democracy is an abstract name for a system and republic is the more concrete result of that system, democracy is frequently used when the emphasis is on the system itself. We could say that democracy is to republic as monarchy is to kingdom.
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These terms are not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, a document that nevertheless expresses clearly that governments should be established “deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” This reads like a definition of both democracy and republic.
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