OH sheesh, we all know it's a constitutional republic. It's just easier to write "democracy." In any event, that has become a synomym for republican governance regardless of its exact orgins. When the president talks about spreading democracy in the Middle East, I'm sure he's not referring to a mobocracy. It's just an easier term for people to understand.
I know, it's just that so many people DON'T know the difference. We need to educate them. No ridicule intended, by the way. I was just making a joke.
Actually it's a "democratically elected Representative Republic if one want's to get painfully specific.
Actually it's a "democratically elected Representative Republic if one want's to get painfully specific.