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Originally posted by RayVega
I don't know why people keep saying this.
leaders are elected in a democratic process and the government is structured similar to a republic since a one-man, one-vote government could not operate on this scale. I guess you could call it a democratic-republic but it was/is the intention of the founders to be more of a democracy than anything.
The former USSR was a republic.
It's that democratic process that is in danger. Not that it has existed as more than an illusion for a long time anyway.
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People keep saying it because our fore fathers founded a Democratic Republic.
Main Entry: re·pub·lic
Function: noun
1 : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president; also : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government
2 : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law; also : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government