BTW...The US is a Federal Republic with a Constitution.
Where/from whence is that federal aspect laid out? The cart and the horse, again.
And, the US Constitution has ALL aspects and elements of a democracy, as I said before.
Then why is there representation instead of direct voting in the Constitution? Isn't direct voting THE hallmark of a democracy?
It really isn't hard to do some research even online and find out, instead of convolution & constantly moving in circles, philman_36.
Definition of a Federal Republic:
"The United States is a federal republic [as opposed to a Unitary Republic] in which the president, Congress, and federal courts share powers reserved to the national government according to its Constitution. At the same time, the federal government shares sovereignty with the state governments." -- here
Then why is there representation instead of direct voting in the Constitution?
Per my original comment in #28 - A democracy means:
“a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.”
Isn't direct voting THE hallmark of a democracy?
From another FR thread to which you pinged me, post 19 -- ”What differentiates us is that we are democratic, in the Jeffersonian sense of all citizens being equal, and government coming from the consent of the governed. That’s how “democracy” is used in today’s English, not a reference to Athens style direct majority rule. That’s how Scalia used it, and how I use it. Arguing that “we are not a democracy, we are a republic” just confuses things.”