US Democracy vs Republic
The cluster debates whether the United States is a democracy, a constitutional republic, or a democratic republic, focusing on distinctions between direct democracy, representative democracy, and republican government structures.
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I thought the US was a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
You seem to be confusing several different concepts. Most countries have representative democracy, rather than direct democracy. This is largely orthogonal to the issue of being a republic, which (in this context, and in over-simplified terms) simply means that there are certain things that even a majority vote can't achieve, as the majority is also bound by the Constitution (in an attempt to avoid the classic problem of two wolves and a sheep voting for what to have for dinner)
The USA is not a Democracy (in the pure sense), it is a Democratic Republic, this is a critical difference that is missed or not understood by the majority of the populous and is critically important not only in this instance but in the general case.
It isn't a democracy. It is a republic. It is rule by the people via a very specific system, one that isn't about simple majority rule.
I believe you have terms misconstrued.What we in the US have is a representative democracy / republic that is also rather decentralized federation (states and state's rights) as well.The US is a democracy. 🇺🇸
Obviously, since the US is not a democracy, but a representative republic.
It’s almost like the US is a representational republic, not a democracy.
It's not a democracy, it's a federal republic.
It is a democracy. A Constitutional Republic is just one way of implementing a democracy, similar to how a constitutional monarchy is just one way of implementing a monarchy. Mob rule everyone votes on everything and even a majority by one decides everything is another (poor) way of implementing democracy.
Small clarification: the US is not a democracy. It is a democratic *republic*.