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Originally Posted by The Third Man
I can't speak to the nature of other countries' systems of government, but the US was never a democracy. It has always been a constitutional republic.
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The democratic system here in the UK is very simliar to what you have in the states, not to mention our major parties reflect each other some what.
US Republican = UK Conservatives (Center Right)
US Democrats = UK Labour (Center Left)
Then we have a third party call the Liberal Democrats, who are more or less a flip flop dead center party supposedly..... not that it matters as they never win an out right majority
Mind you, the Conservatives and Labour have over the years have inreasingly strayed from there Left/Right wing roots resepctively.