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Originally Posted by jimpiano
Our representative republic IS a democracy.
Take a refresher course by reading On Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
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Not a student of government, I see.
While you may consider the misuse of a term by a 19th century racist French social engineer as gospel, I prefer to quote the U.S. Constitution:
Article IV
Section 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.