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Originally Posted by bkkcoh
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Main Entry: de·moc·ra·cy
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural de·moc·ra·cies
Etymology: Middle French democratie, from Late Latin democratia, from Greek dēmokratia, from dēmos + -kratia -cracy
Date: 1576
1 a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections
So the public voting on an issue isn't a form of democracy? I understand that the country has a republic form of government, but if the public votes on a ballot initiative, that is a democracy. Isn't it? 
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Please don't help.
The US is a representative republic. Most of the founding fathers loathed democracy.
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Originally Posted by Benjamin Franklin
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
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