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Since a representative democracy is the same (*)(*)(*)(*) thing as a republic, you are really adding no new information, just quibbling over a difference in nomenclature. NEXT!!!
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I think not.
Democracy implies everything is up for a vote and it's not. As stated a republic places certain things out of the question for voting on. You may play sematics with words all you want, but the reality is we are a republic, not a democracy.
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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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However, a society can either vote on a person's property or it can't. I call the first situation a democracy and the second a republic. If you want to change the rules and play semantics with the meanings of words feel free to do so.
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So what is the difference if any between a democracy and a republic? I hear many arguments from people that they are the same thing, usually having to do with roman and greek words.
I am not willing to accept this explanation because the founding fathers had such low opinions of democracies. They would not explicitly establish a republic if it were doomed to the same inevitable failures as history's great democracies.
Obviously a democracy and a republic are not the same thing.