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Originally Posted by Dvae
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?> |
Daahh, representative democracy and republic don't exclude each other. You have representative democracy that is republic (more narrow definition), but there is no such thing as representative republic.