Is America a democracy or a republic?
The reason I ask is because if you ask a random person on the street "what political system is America?" they will (86% of the time) a Democracy. However given a choice between Democracy and Republic it's 95%/5% in favor of Republic. I wanted to see if the same applied to Y!A, however the option to use Wikipedia makes people give me textbook answers.
Is the United States of America a democracy or a republic?
Both. A republic with representative democracy which involves the selection of government officials by the people being represented. The most common mechanisms involve election of the candidate with a majority or a plurality of the votes. A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch, where the people of that state or country (or at least a part of that people) have impact on its government, and that is usually indicated as a republic. I know some like to confuse the issue but the truth is both.
Is the United States a Constitutional Republic or a Democracy?
It was structured as a Constitutional Republic, but is now an Oligarchy with biased pluralism.
What's the difference between a constitutional republic and a democracy?
The US is a constitutional republic and a representative democracy. Ireland is a constitutional republic and a representative democracy. Holland is a constitutional monarchy and a representative democracy. Japan is a constitutional monarchy and a representative democracy. A representative democracy is where the people elect representatives to run the country. A constitution defines the state. A republic is headed by a president, a monarchy by (symbolic) monarch.
Do you understand what a Constitutional Republic is? Or what a Federal Republic is?
Or rather, do you believe that our country is ruled by representative democracy and should not be limited in its power by rule of law; which makes the recently popularized tactic of end running Constitutional law by the creation of regulatory bodies and powerful Czars and funding those agencies as a preferred practice as a means to ignore Constitutional law. In war, "end run" is called a "flanking action." Flanking actions are used to destroy an enemy by attacking it from its weakest point, where few resources can be brought to bear to oppose the attack. Mindful that our President advised at a recent memorial service that we do not incite or label each other, is it at least grist for the mill to voice the opinion that our Constitution is under attack by those who appear to have no real love for it or at least consider it an impediment to their special interest agenda? Please, if you don't know the three terms posted above nor ever read Common Sense; I invite you to review them and then post a dialogue. Recommended reading: If you read or have read Thomas Paine's Common Sense you might see the parallels from the 1770's and today. If you read it while having in your mind the definitions of Constitutional Republic, Federal Republic and Representative Democracy you might then understand why I have posted this question on this social network in order for you to engage and debate the point from which you view the place that government serves We The People as citizens. Term References: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representative_democracy
What is the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic? Which one is more compatible with America's form of government?
A democracy, as Abraham Lincoln famously put it, is a “government of the people, by the people, for the people,” without regard to the formal structure of the government.A constitutional republic is a particular formal structure that may or may not implement democracy.After World War I, the government of Germany was recast as a constitutional republic. It still had the same formal structure when it was ruled by Adolf Hitler.Britain, on the other hand, is not a republic, but it is a democracy. If you don’t believe that, just look who just decided that Britain should secede from the European Union.The United States is unquestionably a constitutional republic, but one may question whether it is a democracy.P.S. I learned that at my mother’s knee, when I asked her about the difference between a democracy and a republic. She pointed out that Italy under Mussolini was a republic, while Britain, as it was really ruled by Winston Churchill rather than George VI, was a democracy.
What is Americas goverment?♥As in democrocy or republic and quick!♥?
America's government is a Constitutional Republic (Representative democracy).
What is the difference between a republic and a representative democracy?
NONE.The USA IS a democratic constitutional republic.A common definition of “republic” is, to quote the American Heritage Dictionary, “A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them” — we are that.A common definition of “democracy” is, “Government by the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives” — we are that, too.There is no basis for saying that the United States is somehow “not a democracy, but a republic.”“Democracy” and “republic” aren’t just words that a speaker can arbitrarily define to mean something (e.g., defining democracy as “a form of government in which all laws are made directly by the people”).They are terms that have been given meaning by English speakers more broadly.And both today and in the Framing era, “democracy” has been generally understood to include representative democracy as well as direct democracy.