[Truthsearcher]

Dictionary.com is not the place to get your education on political philosophy.

A republic and a democracy are two different things, and the United States of America is a republic, not a democracy. A

[RC one]

you simply don't know what you're talking about and should be embarrassed.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/republic

republic

Full Definition of republic from Meriam-Webster's dictionary:

1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

The key point is that we are a representative republic, where people don't vote directly on issues but rather elect representatives to do so. The caucus systems set up by a lot of states emphasize that aspect. People attend caucus, and elect delegates who then attend other meetings, elect the next layer of delegates, etc..

[buckeye49]

Not a democracy and yet little Don jr. Was on Fox this morning repeating in the broken record speech pattern that must be an inherited trait, “we live in a Democracy we live in a Democracy!” No one challenged that as far as I know because I turned it off in the middle of his segment. Just cannot stand listening to it any longer. Ben Franklin warned us about Donald Trump.