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Which is why the US was founded as a federal republic.
by marshray 15y ago
Which is why the US was founded as a federal republic.
- philwelch 15y agoSpecifically, a federal democratic republic. There's no contradiction between "republic" and "democracy". "Republic" refers to sovereignty (the people hold sovereignty rather than a monarch), while "democracy" refers to power (the people hold power rather than a dictator). Some democracies are not republics--the UK is a constitutional monarchy. Some republics are not democracies--the Roman Republic was an oligarchy and to some extent the early United States was, too.