Thread: What Type Of Goverment do You Prefer?
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Old 03-17-2008, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by BillyBob View Post
We live in a Representative Republic, technically. The US can also be regarded as a Constitutional Republic, but we still rely on representation and not democratic rule. Either way, it's not a true democracy. Our Founding Fathers were wise men.
It's semantics, but you're probably thinking of "direct democracy" A representative republic is considered one of the subsets of "democracy".
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