Originally posted by Terraceth
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Republic: government by representation
Changing the definitions to fit modern governmental forms just over complicates things. Those definitions may work for common speech but they are not used in technical discussion of the governmental forms - poli sci spends endless hours defining its terms over and over again and no one bothers redefining the basics. It's a democratic republic - - a hybrid of a democracy and a republic.
Your argument boils down to 'well, it's what common folks call a democracy' - which is fine, but it is not a technical argument and is an extremely poor understanding of the forms involved.
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