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SamuelRSmith said:
Jumpin said:

Government ::UNITED STATES
conventional long form: United States of America
conventional short form: United States
abbreviation: US or USA
 
Constitution-based federal republic; strong democratic tradition

 

 

 

 

 

-CIA World Factbook

In otherwords, a Democratic Republic; both Democracy and a Republic.

I'm not disputing that. I'm disputing your definition of a "republic", which means something different in regards to the way the American system is set up, to what you described "republic" to mean (which is the term applied to other republics).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republicanism_in_the_United_States

I though a republic was basically a state with a monarch. The Republican party in the USA is something completely different to that



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