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Originally posted by MandyBlake
A republic...more accurately, and what they taught us in high school, a democratic republic.
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A democratic republic is both a democracy and a republic. The term "republic" can include democracies, while the term "democracy" can include republics.
Since the USA doesn't have a monarch as the head of state and the supreme power lies in the votes of a body of citizens, it's a republic, since it uses a democratic system but also has a constitution guaranteeing essential liberties, it's a liberal democracy, and since it uses a model of representation rather than direct participation, it's also a representative democracy.