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Awesome !
Long Live the Republic.

Thats an awfully simplistic view. We are actually a combination of the two. We are not a republic but not a democracy. We have a balance of power between federal, state, and local which all have different characteristics.

And your last sentence is so blindly naive I really don’t know what to say. Yes I do – disappointment comes to mind.

We are typically known as a “Democratic Republic”.

“Will of the whoever-happens-to-be-present masses” isn’t democracy, and I think that your example is, as yoshi said, incredibly simplistic and inaccurate.

I’m afraid I happen to agree.
A republic is a form of government where we elect our officials to make our decisions for us. A democracy is one where all of the people vote on the decisions.
Ergo, the US is both. We vote for government officials, but also on referendums.

More accurately, the mob could only hang him if the mob consisted of a majority of the citizens of said democracy.
In a republic, the mob could hang him if the mob consisted of a majority of the elected and appointed officials.

While Carlos’ explanation is limited, and at times a recitation of excerpts, I do think this would be a useful tool for children learning civics.

Catinthewall #5,
But only after due process and exhausting all appeals.

I should have known better than to post a simple video with a basic explanation as a way to avoid a heavily researched post on a Friday night.

Remember, I wake up early on Saturday to go my NBCMiami gig.

But if you want to fully expand on the differences between a democracy and a republican, then be my guest.

That is a great video & a democracy is mob rule we have a government that is limited by the constitution as our elected reps r supposed to be! And there r no “different charistics” when it comes to gov officials. A republic is a nation of legal equals, as our high court SAYS WE ARE,& if America is a democracy why do the crooks in dc work for such a small % of Americans?

The Army of the US used to tell its recruits in their “Why We Fight” manual that a democracy is a “mob rules from of government where the right of the many can take away the rights of the few & we live in a REPUBLIC” they quit informing them of this around WW1, but hiding the truth dosent change it yoshi!

Is a Republic not bound by a document that defines the laws that govern the government; that document being what makes the government a Monarchy, Oligarchy, Democracy, etc? Are we not a Democratic Republic?

I think that our Democratic elected servants care not what said document says. When I vote do I hire hit-men to prey on others? I don’t want to pay $ or anything for other good people to be hurt.

I come to this site often & hardly ever post but lies that r leading to tyrnary really upset me so art 4 sec 4 U S Constitution “The U S shall guerantee every state in the Union a REPUBLICAN form of government…” & yes our founding fathers knew we used some democratic principals. Now how about reading the preamble to the Bill of Rights, please!