Quote Originally Posted by denmason View Post
Last time I checked it was still a Republic... even though the media keeps telling us it's a democracy. Very different animals.
Here we go again... Dennis, check your dictionaries, a current one, old ones. If you insist they are different I would ask that you provide definitions and a source for them. We need to be able to communicate and to do so effectively we must understand the meaning of the words we use.
I am not a native English speaker, so I like to use words with their widely accepted meaning and not the one that a small community may like.
My understanding is that USA is a republic AND a representative democracy. It is not a monarchy, it is not a theocracy, and it is not a dictatorship.
My question to you is the same - what is USA. For extra credit, what about Great Britain?