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Originally Posted by irishgrl
your own quote actually backs up what I said, which was that the US was a REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, not a Pure Democracy. I am not aware of any place in any time that actually operated under a Pure Democracy; And I never said we were a direct Democracy either. Go back to my original post, I said REPRESENTATIVE Democracy.
btw: my understanding of "republic" is that it refers to a citizen body, the citizen population, whereas "democracy" is a political construct, and is completely different altogether.
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You mean your edited post
where you initially called it a representative democracy but then later - in an attempt at wit - said "Bush thinks we live in a Republic, the rest of us (except Jason LOL!) think we live in a Democracy...." - the latter has no qualifer dear.