What Is Democracy?
"control of an organization or group by the majority of its members."
This is often executed in the form of Representative Democracy or "is a type of democracy where elected people represent a group of people, in contrast to direct democracy"
The United States is a Democratic republic which marries the ideas of democracy and a republic
Republic: "A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch."
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