Thanks for the correction. I see that the term is somewhat vague. “Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law notes that the United States exemplifies the varied nature of a democratic republic—a country where some decisions (often local) are made by direct democratic processes, while others (often federal) are made by democratically elected representatives. As with many large systems, US governance is incompletely described by any single term.” Wikiipedia. I will, however, defer to your term in the future.