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Many people in the United States think we are a democracy. Those people are wrong.
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It gets tiring having to point this out every week:
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de‧moc‧ra‧cy /dɪˈmɒkrəsi/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[di-mok-ruh-see] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun, plural -cies.
1. government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
2. a state having such a form of government: The United States and Canada are democracies.
3. a state of society characterized by formal equality of rights and privileges.
4. political or social equality; democratic spirit.
5. the common people of a community as distinguished from any privileged class; the common people with respect to their political power.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=democracy
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By the current dictionary definiton of the word, yes, we are a Democracy. Even if we did not start out as a democracy, we are a democracy NOW.
We are also a Republic, by definition. Every couple weeks someone comes on this forum trying to sound smart by claiming a distinction between the two words, as if they are mutually exclusive. They are not. We fit the definitions for both.
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Agreed that we are not a pure democracy.
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The dictionary does not recognize the definition of democracy that is commonly assumed by liberals (that is, a direct-vote system). That is a fabrication of the left. There is no such thing as a "pure" democracy, because that definition is subjective.