... a REPUBLICAN form of government ...
A democracy is a political system in which the people periodically, by majority vote at the polls, select their rulers. The rulers then have absolute power to make whatever laws they please, by majority vote among themselves.Don’t expect AP to tell the truth about constitutional republicanism versus democracy. Never mind Woodrow Wilson calling socialism and democracy “one and the same”.
In a constitutional Republic, the people also, by majority vote at the polls, select rulers, who make laws by majority vote among themselves; but the rulers cannot make any laws they please because the Constitution severely restricts their lawmaking power.
The ideal of a democracy is universal equality. The ideal of a constitutional Republic is individual liberty.
In this century, great strides have been made toward the goal of subverting our Republic and transforming it into a democracy. One tactic of the subverters is subversion of language. By calling the United States a democracy until people thoughtlessly accept and use the term, totalitarians have obscured the real meaning of our principles of government.
— Dan Smoot Report, 1966
Pretty sure that won’t like the alternative.
I actually get tired of people saying that. Did you read the article?
The writer is correct, we have a representative form of government, with our reps democratically elected.