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Originally Posted by aka123
What that has to do where I come from?
I doubt that USA is representetive republic, as there is no such term used, at least officially. The term is representative democracy.
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It doesn't matter what you believe. It does not change what is.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/republic
<when asked by a passerby what sort of government the constitutional convention had formulated for the new nation, Benjamin Franklin memorably replied, ?A republic, if you can keep it?>