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Spider Jerusalem

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17. They differ because a representative democracy need not be a republic.

Reply to merrily (Reply #14)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 09:56 AM

Jan 2015

Constitutional monarchies are representative democracies but they are not republics. A republic, in modern usage, is a representative democracy in which the head of state is an elected or nominated president (the US, France, Germany, et cetera) and not a monarch.

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"Democracy" sounds so great, and, so well, democratic, but the US is a republic. merrily Jan 2015 #3

The US is a representative democracy. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #5

The US is a republic. merrily Jan 2015 #6

"but the USA is a republic, not a democracy"... Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #7

Then the Framers were ignorant right wingers. So are people who compile dictionaries. merrily Jan 2015 #8

I don't really think that the opinions of people who've been dead two centuries... Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #9

The goal of the Framers when they wrote the Constitution is irrelevant to what kind of nation merrily Jan 2015 #10

Yep, it's irrelevant, because it's not 1789 anymore. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #11

The Constitution still sets up a republic. That has not changed. You are conflating merrily Jan 2015 #12

... Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #13

Now look up definitions of "republic," like the one I posted above, and tell me merrily Jan 2015 #14

They differ because a representative democracy need not be a republic. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #17

Ours is a republic, though. And the definition of republic I posted upthread says President, merrily Jan 2015 #18

A republic is still a democracy; I'm not sure why you have trouble understanding that. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2015 #19

I am not having trouble understanding anything. A republic is a republic. I stated merrily Jan 2015 #20

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