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Originally posted by punkworld
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.
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Ok....I didn't exactly come from one of the US's finer secondary education systems, so they could have been wrong.
Although what they meant in saying "democratic republic" was that the people voted (as in democracy) for a leader (republic).
