Laurel Aitken said:
Kantor said:
sapphi_snake said:
Vertigo-X said:
*facepalms*
Maybe that guy in the end doesn't realize it, but there is a distinct line between a Republic, which is what the US is, and a Democracy. |
*facepalm*
You're another one of those people who has no ideea what those two terms mean (and that they're not mutually exclusive, as they refer to different aspects of a state).
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A democracy gives full control of the country and its laws and policy to the majority.
A republic guarantees certain fundamental rights regardless of the opinion of the majority.
The USA is a republic.
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And what is a democratic republic?
As sapphi_snake said, they aren't mutually exclusive.
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The USA is a Democratic Republic.
Incidentally, so is North Korea.
However, it is not a democracy. No country with a formalised constitution can be called a democracy.
http://lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/demrep.html
The definitions have changed over time to "a country with elections" and "a country with no monarch" in popular usage, but that is not what they mean.
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