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Originally Posted by eadric
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Except we do not have a democracy; we have a republic - if we can keep it.
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You're being pedantic (which is to say you're technically correct, but your technical correction didn't add anything to the discussion so everyone would have been better off if you hadn't made it
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But hey, I can be pedantic too! While we are a republic, we're not just any republic ... we're a
democratic republic:
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia
A democratic republic is a form of government operating on principles adopted from a republic and a democracy. Rather than being a cross between two entirely separate systems, democratic republics may function on principles shared by both republics and democracies.
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Originally Posted by Wikipedia (emphasis added)
Theory
Common definitions of the terms democracy and republic often feature overlapping concerns, suggesting that many democracies function as republics, and many republics operate on democratic principles, as shown by these definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary:
Republic: "A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives..."[1]
Democracy: "A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."[2]
Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law notes that the United States exemplifies the varied nature of a constitutional republic—a country where some decisions (often local) are made by direct democratic processes, while others (often federal) are made by democratically elected representatives.[3]
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In other words, democratic republics
are democracies (
and republics). Ha! Now I'm the one who's technically correct!
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