Mitchell Report?

[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by jimpiano

Our representative republic IS a democracy.

Take a refresher course by reading On Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

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.