Why do our lawmakers, president and even the news media always talk about our great

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democracy? I just checked our Constitution for the words democratic, democrat and democracy. None of them are there.

In Article IV, Section 4, I did find this:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government

Shouldn't they be talking about our great republic?
 
republic n 1 : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and is usually a president; also : a nation or other political unit having such a government 2 : a government in which supreme power is held by the citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives governing according to law; also : a nation or other political unit having such a form of government .

What this boils down to is "The Fed can't tell the state who their Senator is".

The States get to appoint their own government officials without approval from the Federal Government. A Republic is just one form of Democracy.

Another form of Democracy might allow the citizens to vote for a Federal Government which would control the individual states... but we obviously don't have that... I believe that our way of doing it is MORE democratic in this respect.... Republic and Democracy are not "opposites" just because the two parties are ideologically different.

However, there is just one aspect of a Republican government that I have never liked... and that is the Electoral College... The people who cast your vote for you. They are not required (as far as I can tell) to represent the majority... Which is terrible and contrary to a fair election.

Furthermore, I do not like the ultimate power that the two parties have in the primary elections. I don't like the way the Democrats marginalized Hillary Clinton and the way the Republicans marginalized Ron Paul without permission from voters.
 
Sigh...ridiculous nitpicking.

It is a democracy. The common person is involved.

Doubt that? How is it that you're talking about it here?
 
People have been duped into believing that this is a democracy and 'they have a voice' when it is in fact a wicked distortion of our republic.
 
Well, it's democrat-IC in that people vote, but it is not a literal democracy, you are right. Neither is it really a literal republic, either, especially since in many states the citizenry can make laws through referendums and the like.
 
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