> not a democracy Democracy comes in many flavours and it's very hard to see the US federal system as outside of that when it is composed of elected representa

> not a democracy Democracy comes in many flavours and it's very hard to see the US federal system as outside of that when it is composed of elected representatives. It's not a direct democracy, it's not a democracy where each vote counts the same, but it certainly falls within the very wide definition of democracy - "a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."