Kasz216 on 02 June 2008
| wfz said: Isn't the United States a Republic? ....I'm not the most educated on the subject, but that's what I thought it was. People always say "democracy" but I thought republic was the more proper term for our government. |
It's both.
It's a consitutional republic that is structured as a representitive democracy.
The terms republic and democracy really aren't that different and overlap a lot.
Most people think of Democracy as the ridgid "Direct Democracy" only, however this isn't so.
