I've learned one thing and it is that you need to crack open something of more substance than a dictionary to learn what form of government America has. Did they give you a civics book for civics class or just a dictionary.
This is a conservative site.
Perhaps you need to reexamine the name of this site, Free REPUBLIC not Free Democracy, and reconsider this conversation.
You're not going to make friends accusing people of throwing around agitprop.
I'm not trying to make friends. You on the other hand, judging by that comment, live by the cult of personality. You would rather be popular than factually accurate.
But if a dictionary is the best that can be expected from you then 'here ya go'...republic
Pay special attention to the definitions given from...
the Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
(a country with) a form of government in which there is no king or queen, the power of government, law-making etc being given to one or more elected representatives (eg a president, members of a parliament etc) Example: The United States is a republic — the United Kingdom is not.
...and The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
A form of government in which power is explicitly vested in the people, who in turn exercise their power through elected representatives. Today, the terms republic and democracy are virtually interchangeable, but historically the two differed. Democracy implied direct rule by the people, all of whom were equal, whereas republic implied a system of government in which the will of the people was mediated by representatives, who might be wiser and better educated than the average person. In the early American republic, for example, the requirement that voters own property and the establishment of institutions such as the Electoral College were intended to cushion the government from the direct expression of the popular will.
As usual with you guys, you can dish it out but you can't take it.
Who is "you guys"? Do you believe you're conversing with more than one person? And as far as dishing anything out you've thrown nothing but snowballs while I've been throwing inside fastballs that have you backing out of the batter's box.
*PLONK*
That's the sound of yet another fastball hitting the mitt, while you play at being "The Mighty Casey". 