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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, I'll bite and play along with this 10 year old, even though I should be outside exercising today, and so should you, OP.

[b]The US is not a democracy. The United States is a republic.[/b]

We'll wait while you go look up the difference. Please come back with a well-crafted paragraph demonstrating your understanding, and we'll go from there in this discussion.

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Oh geez, not this again. Yes, our country is a democracy - a representative democracy where we vote for people to represent our interests within the government.

Our country is also a republic, which is the FORM of our government.

[quote]I often hear people argue that the United States is a republic, not a democracy. But that’s a false dichotomy. A common definition of “republic” is, to quote the American Heritage Dictionary, “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” — we are that. A common definition of “democracy” is, “Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives” — we are that, too.

The United States is not a direct democracy, in the sense of a country in which laws (and other government decisions) are made predominantly by majority vote. Some lawmaking is done this way, on the state and local levels, but it’s only a tiny fraction of all lawmaking. But we are a representative democracy, which is a form of democracy.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?utm_term=.cb6d94c8a581[/quote]

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