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Originally Posted by The Third Man
Also known as a constitutional republic, if you believe in the constitution part. Republican means representative.
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So if a republic is a form of representative democracy, then to say that the U.S. is a republic and not a democracy is intentionally misleading. They're not opposites. We democratically and directly elect out Senators under the 17th amendment. The national government is thus a republic and a democracy.
They're not mutually exclusive.