Is the USA a democracy or a republic?
Or some combination thereof? Is the two party system in a perpetual battle to make it one or the other?
Or some combination thereof? Is the two party system in a perpetual battle to make it one or the other?
Anonymous
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Democratic republic since the people vote for the senators and president.
robert x
its both... surely you must know this
Walter B
a) America is a constitutional republic.
b) America is not, and has never been, a democracy or a free country going back to the Pilgrims.
c) America espouses democracy but does not practice it at home and certainly apposes it in other countries often supporting and/or installing, right wing military dictatorships.
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It is obviously both - a democratic republic. It only has a two-party system because that's what you tend to get with "first past the post" voting - as only the candidate with most votes wins and a vote for anyone else is wasted, little parties have no chance of winning so the natural tendency is to end up with two.
Anonymous
It is a democratic republic. If we can keep it.
"There is a story, often told, that upon exiting the Constitutional Convention Benjamin Franklin was approached by a group of citizens asking what sort of government the delegates had created. His answer was: 'A republic, if you can keep it.'"